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ANOTHER PROPERTY
AN ATHABASKAN PAINTED AND PONY BEADED HIDE QUIVER
Details
AN ATHABASKAN PAINTED AND PONY BEADED HIDE QUIVER
of tapering form, painted in red and stitched with sinew in black, white, white-heart red, and blue pony beads, with a depiction of two hunters, each with a hunting implement, probably a gun, pointed at the animals before them, including three caribou, a bear, and various other abstract quadrupeds, with a series of dots along the top surmounted by a ticked band of beadwork, and a row of triangles, spaced into groups of three, painted along the bottom, beaded fringes below, suspended from a narrow strap with long, cut out panels strung with beads
Length: 27¼ in. (69.2 cm.)
of tapering form, painted in red and stitched with sinew in black, white, white-heart red, and blue pony beads, with a depiction of two hunters, each with a hunting implement, probably a gun, pointed at the animals before them, including three caribou, a bear, and various other abstract quadrupeds, with a series of dots along the top surmounted by a ticked band of beadwork, and a row of triangles, spaced into groups of three, painted along the bottom, beaded fringes below, suspended from a narrow strap with long, cut out panels strung with beads
Length: 27¼ in. (69.2 cm.)
Further details
For a very similar example identified as "Tanaina type, collected in 1889 [in the] Collection du Musee d'ethnographie, Geneva Switzerland ..." see The Glenbow Museum, 1988:144, plate 126.