Identity area
Reference code
CA ACU SPC C0067-IT0022
Title
Crow boots [Beatrice Gargan]
Date(s)
- 1974 - 1975 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
23 x 21 cm
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Member of a traditional skills craft workshop in the 1970s in Fort Providence, Northwest Territories
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
- Silk embroidery floral design: light pink, bright pink, yellow and green dyes chain stitched on inserted navy stroud vamp.
- On vamp: one flower: bright pink with yellow centre (five-petal design) on a branch with six green leaves.
- Upper cuff: navy stroud with silk embroidery floral design: pink, yellow and green.
- On one side: one complete flower: bright print with yellow centre (five-petal design); one half flower with yellow centre (three-petal design) on a branch with seven green leaves (left side) and nine green leaves (right side).
- Front opening, with plaited wool yarn ties (pink and burgundy) and fringed ends (hot pink and blue)
- Red stroud cloth and leather ties at top of boot
- Commercial tanned hide, soft sole, rounded toe gathered into vamp, T-shaped heel-seamed; beige stroud lining.
- Vamp and tongue one piece bordered with white rabbit fur
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Alternative identifier(s)
boxFile
BOX 002
barcode
00011055803
Accession number
2023.33 [mph ath 7-75]
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Place access points
Name access points
- Gargan, Beatrice (Subject)