Title and description taken from verso. These people were all participants in a large potlatch that was held in Sitka in December of 1904. They are wearing a variety of ceremonial clothing for the occasion, including: hats trimmed with beads,...
Description: wood; beads; metal; glass beads
Descriptive Narrative: Abacus (Russian: shchety). 12 rows of beads strung on metal tubes. The first 7 rows, row 10, row 11 have 10 beads. Row 8 & row 12 have 4 beads each. Row 9 has no beads. 2...
The bag is made of netted babiche and the top has band of moosehide. It is decorated with hide rickrack and blue seed beads. The drawstring is of hide. Green trade are beads woven into netting at intervals; four clumps of hide fringe on bottom;...
The bag is loosely woven in a diamond pattern of babiche; top edging is of moose hide as in the drawstring. The tassels at bottom of the rim and bottom of bag are of hide and large commercial beads. Trade beads are interspersed on the body of the...
Doubled piece of smoked hide with folded "neck" sewn with
d-ring inside. One side has dark brown and light orange
beads in a square shape, other side has solid white beading
with red, heart-shaped flowers with "silver" centers; edging
of doubled...
Doubled piece of smoked hide with folded "neck" sewn with
d-ring inside. One side has dark brown and light orange
beads in a square shape, other side has solid white beading
with red, heart-shaped flowers with "silver" centers; edging
of doubled...
Beaded bible cover (5.5 in. x 9.125 in. flat) with 1 in. tab for fastening. Cross done in beads on front cover; Cross on front in brown beads; "suns" and half-circles in red, pink, blue, yellow and light green; edging in pink and brown; background...
Beaded bible cover (5.5 in. x 9.125 in. flat) with 1 in. tab for fastening. Cross done in beads on front cover; Cross on front in brown beads; "suns" and half-circles in red, pink, blue, yellow and light green; edging in pink and brown; background...
Beaded bible cover (5.5 in. x 9.125 in. flat) with 1 in. tab for fastening. Cross done in beads on front cover; Cross on front in brown beads; "suns" and half-circles in red, pink, blue, yellow and light green; edging in pink and brown; background...
Lane, Daisy (maker). Pair of calf skin ankle length fancy oogruks. Approximately 9 in. in length and 10 in. from toe to heel. Toe area is decorated with blue and white hide braid and concentric circular beadwork. The ankle area is decorated with...
One pair of leather work gloves that have a beaded section
on the front, bordered with brown beaver fur. The
beadwork design shows two flowers at the top and a bush
plane below. There is a white background and the section is
bordered with red and...
Jones, Laura (artist). Beaded mat (5.25 in. diameter) with white seed bead background and 3 flowers: dark red, royal blue, and dark blue seed and tubular beads, stems and 2 tones of green leaves. Two separate flowers are on the mat, one pink with...