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    A Chippewa while she weaves a mat, a typical summer occupation for older women. This appears to be a mat made out of cedar bark, natural golden-brown in colour, with striped designs painted with cedar.

  Wife of a Miwok Chief of the Coast, 1833 Near BodegaBaya high-ranking woman offer guests acorn mush out of a ceremonial basket decorated with beads made of sea buck-thorn pits and decorated with red feathers taken from the heads of dozens of woodpeckers. Her soft feather mantel, which was …

  Until the mid-nineteenth century, the rectangular purses decorated with beads, with a wrist band (also decorated with beads) sewn to its corners, were a very widespread accessory amongst the Plateau Indians and the Crows. This purse (to the right), attributed to the Nez Percé, is decorated with beads in …

  This Haida Kaigani ceremonial leather cloak dates back to before 1875. It is edged with fur and painted with crests portraying semi-human beings with bear claws. The central figures are identical, while the top image portrays a woman: the gender is indicated by the presence of the labial plate.

  MOHAWK Mohawk Warrior, 1750 A running Mohawk warrior passes a tree on which there is a pictograph testimony of war. He’s holding an English rifle and a metal tomahawk decorated with tufts of scalp on one end. The powder horn is French and is worn over a wool bag …