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Woman's Hood

Eastern Cree
Northern Quebec/Ontario

ca. 1860

blue and red wool stroud cloth, glass beads, silk lining, sinew

height: (incl. fringe): 25 ½"
width: 10 ½"

Inventory # CW3529

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acquired by the Aanishaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute, Oujé-Bougoumou, QC


PROVENANCE

Collected in Northern Quebec between 1910 and 1920 by Gerald Jamieson, Ottawa, ON
by descent to his daughter
Ms. Louise Fletcher (ne Jamieson), Ottawa, ON
Donald Ellis Gallery, Dundas, ON
Private collection, Toronto, ON

RELATED EXAMPLES

The McCord Museum, Montreal, Que., No. M7059 - See: The Spirit Sings (Catalogue), Glenbow Museum, 1987, pl. W30, pg. 44

The Ethnological Museum, Berlin, The Speyer Collection, Inv. Nr. IV B 12827 – See: Bolz, Peter and Sanner, Hans-Ulrich. Native American Art: The Collections of the Ethnological Museum Berlin. Berlin: G-Und-H-Verlag, 1999, fig. 186

The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection, New York, NY – See:  Bernstein, Bruce and McMaster, Gerald (eds). First American Art: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004, pg. 257