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PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN COLLECTION
A CREE MAN'S QUILLED HIDE COAT
Details
A CREE MAN'S QUILLED HIDE COAT
in a European style, with upright collar and front opening trimmed in red wool trade cloth, hide strips forming epaulettes on the shoulders, each with with ivory, black and orange-dyed porcupine quillwork in a meander pattern with short fringe below, and green and red painted decoration of linear bands enclosing nucleated circles above the fringe at bottom
Length: 43 in. (119.3 cm.)
in a European style, with upright collar and front opening trimmed in red wool trade cloth, hide strips forming epaulettes on the shoulders, each with with ivory, black and orange-dyed porcupine quillwork in a meander pattern with short fringe below, and green and red painted decoration of linear bands enclosing nucleated circles above the fringe at bottom
Length: 43 in. (119.3 cm.)