Clothing & Regalia

Photo of family (2 grandparents(?), one mother with toddler on back). Elderly man wears cross around his neck and holds a walking stick. Mother with patterned blanket and beaded necklace and earrings.

File contains 2 negatives featuring a man and two children in traditional dress, presumably from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan or area, taken on January 29, 1966.

Discusses the long history of the practice of non-Indigenous people appropriating and performing Indigenous cultures. Chapter from volume four of the Handbook of North American Indians edited by William C. Sturtevant.

A black and white photograph of a beaded leather jacket, ca 1930s or 1940s.

Historical note:

An Aboriginal couple poses in front of the Fort Ellice memorial cairn. They are dressed in ceremonial clothing, and the man carries a pipe stem in his left hand.

A photograph of an Indian man in ceremonial dress with sash and head dress posing with non-Native girl. Tipi and red ensign in background. Probably taken in Carlton at a Treaty celebration.

A photograph of an Indian man posing in traditional tunic, leggings, headdress holding staff (adorned with feathers) and sash. On-lookers and tipi in background. Probably taken in Carlton at a Treaty celebration.

Image of an Aboriginal man standing beside a horse and holding its reins. The man wears ceremonial dress and an ornate blanket hangs around the horse's neck; summer scene.

File contains 10 negatives from the Indian Metis Days Pow Wow and Sports Events held in Prince Albert, SK on June 21, 1970. All images show Pow Wow dancers in traditional dress.

Quarterly magazine published by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Articles on various topics including family hunting territories of the Waswanipi of Quebec and archeological work with the Putnam Baffin Island expedition.

Quarterly magazine published by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Articles on various topics including data on votive axes from ancient Mexico and Mohawk burden-straps.

Quarterly magazine published by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Numerous articles on various topics including notes on the nation of the Mistassini and a report on a visit to a Chert quarry.

Quarterly magazine published by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Articles on various topics including a special holiday exhibit and conservation at the museum.

Quarterly magazine published by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Articles on various topics including personal observations on the Mikasuki and a display of miniatures.

Black and white photograph of a line of Aboriginal people on horseback participating in a parade at Fort Macleod. They wear traditional clothing and the horses pull travois.

Black and white photograph of a group of Aboriginal people participating in a parade at Macleod. They wear traditional clothing and are on horseback.

File contains 8 negatives from an unspecified Pow Wow in Prince Albert, SK held on June 24, 1961.

A First Nations Pow-wow in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, 1908.

An image of four Aboriginal men in ceremonial regalia. Photographed by Charles W. Mathers near Edmonton, Alberta circa 1890s. Colours have been added to the photograph in a chromolithograph process.

Book review of: Indians and Wannabes by Ann M. Axtmann.

An image of a long parade of Aboriginal men on horseback in ceremonial regalia. Blackfoot Indians at a parade in Lethbridge. Colours have been added to the picture in a chromolithograph process. The postcard appears to be dated 21 June 1902, but this not clear.

Image of an Aboriginal man and woman in ceremonial dress, standing in front of a truck.

A photograph of a group of Aboriginal men in ceremonial clothing celebrating 50 years of peace since 1885. Three of them are Battle River Indians who fought against the Queen's forces at Cutknife Hill in 1885. They are, top right, Fine Day; lower centre, Meesegon; and lower right, Kasokio the strong man. Back row, left to right, Tom Tootoosis (Poundmaker), Iron Child (Little Pine), Frank Knife (Sweet Grass), Peter Horsfall (Pasqua), Antoine Lonesinger (Sweet Grass), Edwin Wuttunee (Red Pheasant), Mokanis (Saulteaux, Jackfish), and Fine Day.

A large group of Aboriginal men and women standing in a circle with a drum group inside the circle. They are on a street in Yorkton Sask., and there is a large building in the background. A group of non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal people look on.

A group of Aboriginal men dance in lines on a street in Yorkton while a crowd of people watch in the background. The street is not paved, and there are some early 20th century style buildings in the background. One of the buildings is a farm machinery dealership.

First Nations men in traditional dress dancing on a Yorkton, Saskatchewan street in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century (no date provided).

A photograph of Aboriginal men in ceremonial dress, probably taken at Saskatoon Exhibition. All three wear head-dresses and beaded clothing.

1 postcard depicting a parade of Indigenous people in full dress on horseback. Person leading the parade is wearing a headdress. Two onlookers in foreground.

A photograph of a group of Aboriginal men performing a traditional ceremony, taken in Prince Albert, NWT [1901]. They wear traditional clothing, and some hold long narrow sticks. They are probably Dakota people from Wahpeton.

Historical note:

Virtual exhibit features over 900 examples of material culture. Main focus is Canada, but also includes some items from United States, Siberia and Greenland.

Image of a group of Indigenous men in traditional dress standing on a platform with non-Aboriginal men. Horse with travois in foreground.

Group of Indigenous people gathered outside of building.

Image of various people in traditional dress.

Image of woman seated with child in mossbag and cradle board next to her.

Comments on a personal collection of over 800,000 pieces, from throughout ten regions of the Americas, installed in the National Museum of the American Indian.

Uses inventories from Fort Langley and New Caledonia trading posts to analyze the type and quantity of clothing items being purchased.

Description of a specific doll, as well as a very brief history of the First Nation.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kansas State University, 2016.

Discusses powwow in relation to intertribal negotiation and intercultural communication.

File contains 12 negatives of dancers from the Intertribal Pow Wow held at the Pinegrove Correction Centre, Prince Albert, SK, August 25, 1988.

Noted Métis artist discusses her involvement with the travelling exhibition of moccasin vamps which commemorate murdered and missing Indigenous women.

Short description of Treaty 7 negotiations; and the transfer of chieftainship from Bad Head to Red Crow.

Lesson plan developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta. Suitable for ages 12 and up.

Brief history of Inuit art and a look at emerging artists.

A group of Inuit gathered outdoors, dressed in traditional hide clothing. Location unknown. Part of the "Inuit of Keewatin" series (#12).

Brief article contains a photograph of a ornate parka which contains 701 hand-drilled caribou teeth attached to the beaded fringes of the outfit.