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Introduction

Fringed jacket with a v neck, decorated with floral silk embroidery and white ermine fur lining the edges.

Nation of Maker: Cree Maskêkowiyiniwak (Swampy Cree) Mushkegowuk (Western James Bay Cree) Omushkego (Winisk-Swampy Cree) Métis
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British Museum Catalog Card.

Place of Origin: Ontario or Manitoba, CAN
Date Made or Date Range: 19 C
Materials

Made of hide, fur; ermine, silk embroidery thread; pink, green, red.

Techniques or Format

The jacket has fringe on the shoulders, sleeves and along the bottom. The neck is a V with a strip of white hide decorated with a floral silk embroidery design and edged with white ermine fur.

Dimensions: 44 × 0 × 0 cm
Condition: Good.
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

British Museum Catalog Card.

Current Location: British Museum, London, UK
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: Am 1984 26.6
GKS Reference Number: 25078
How to Cite this Item

Unknown artist, coat. Currently in the British Museum, Am 1984 26.6. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 25078.

Record Creation Context

Record created as part of practicum, winter 2009.

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