Out of the North: The Subarctic Collection of the Haffenreffer Museum of AnthropologyThis catalogue of artifacts in the collections of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology focusses on items made by sub-Arctic Indian and Metis women from natural materials, such as boots, moccasins, stockings, gloves, pockets, jackets, baby carriers, baskets, trays and drums. Includes description of the travels and collections made by Emma Mary Colcleugh (1846-1940) the second woman tourist in the north (Prairies and Mackenzie Valley) between 1888 and 1894. |
Contents
Contents | 7 |
PEOPLE HISTORY AND ART | 17 |
VICTORIAN COLLECTOR | 37 |
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Alberta Algonquian Athapaskan babiche band Barbara Hail beads beadwork belts birch bark blue Brochet buds central Subarctic century Rudolf F Chipewyan cm H Collected by Emma Collected by Hail color cotton crafts Cree or Cree-Métis cuff decorated Dogrib embroidered embroidery Emma Shaw Colcleugh firebag floral designs Fort Chipewyan Fort Providence Fort Simpson fringes glass seed-beads green Haffenreffer Museum Hail and Duncan Hay River Hudson's Bay Company Kutchin Lake Winnipeg Lake-Mackenzie River Region late nineteenth century Mackenzie River Manitoba métis moccasins motifs mukluks native nineteenth century Collected North Northern Northwest Territories Norway House octopus Ojibwa opaque pattern petals pink porcupine quills pouch quills woven Red River rosettes Saskatchewan Saulteaux seams sewn sides silk thread sinew sinew-strung Slave Lake Slave Lake-Mackenzie River Slavey smoked moose hide Soft sole spruce root stem Subarctic tabs thong translucent two-beaded edging vamp women Woods Cree wool yellow