Hide panel decorated with quillwork in two colours. Long rectangular piece of pliable hide is fully covered on one side by yellow-dyed quillwork, applied in a basket weave pattern. Red dyed quillwork is used to create four sets of three red lines, each extending horizontally across the panel, two emanating from a central line at middle, and two encroaching inward from the edges, each also backed with a red line.

• Specific Techniques

  Probably made of brain-tanned hide and split bird quills?

• Narrative

  Sandra Dent's grandfather (Gervase Edward Gale) was a missionary and principal of St. Paul's School at Cardston, Alberta, on the Blood Reserve, c. 1904-1910. Her grandmother, Hattie May is said to have collected the Blood (Kainai) objects in MOA accessions 3194 and 3239.

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• Type of Item panel
• Culture Kainai
• Material rawhide skin, bird quill, dye
• Manufacturing Technique quillwork, wrapped
• Measurements height 8.0 cm, width 70.0 cm (overall)

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• Previous Owner Hattie May Gale, Sandra Dent
• Received from Sandra Dent

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• Made in Alberta
• Collected in Cardston

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• Creation Date before 1890
• Collection Date between 1904 and 1910
• Ownership Date before 1968, before May 2, 2017
• Acquisition Date on May 2, 2017

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• Condition good
• Accession Number 3239/0004