First Nations Mittens/gloves
Catalog #
2021.005.001
Accession #
Leather gloves/mittens – beaded flowers and leaves, fur on cuffs and across gloves. Fringe to one side. Lined with blanket with stripes ? Hudson Bay blanket. Machine stitching noted. Made in style of First Nations. Age unknown.
Letter came with gloves advising that the gloves and a pair of Mukluks were lent to the donor, Megan Lee for a Rotary exchange program from 1999 to 2000, so that she could take them to Thailand to show the people she met there. The Gloves were used in a play about Canadian culture and history.