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A KUTCHIN QUILLED HIDE DRESS AND HOOD
Both constructed of caribou hide, the dress with long sleeves and skirt, decorated with fringe along neck and shoulders and two rows at the bottom of the skirt, fringe wrapped in natural and orange, purple and yellow dyed porcupine quillwork and accented with seeds, plaited quillwork in similar colors at sleeves, seams dyed with red pigment; the hood decorated similarly
The dress: 59in. (149.8cm.); the hood: 18½in. (47cm.) long (2)
Both constructed of caribou hide, the dress with long sleeves and skirt, decorated with fringe along neck and shoulders and two rows at the bottom of the skirt, fringe wrapped in natural and orange, purple and yellow dyed porcupine quillwork and accented with seeds, plaited quillwork in similar colors at sleeves, seams dyed with red pigment; the hood decorated similarly
The dress: 59in. (149.8cm.); the hood: 18½in. (47cm.) long (2)
Provenance
Descended through the family of Donald Alexander Smith, Lord Strathcona.