A pair of Yakima beaded gauntlets Plateau smoked buckskin with coloured glass beads of floral...

A pair of Yakima beaded gauntlets

Plateau

smoked buckskin with coloured glass beads of floral designs, with printed cotton linings, circa 1920,

39.5cm long. (2)

Provenance

Rev. Sivonen, a missionary on the Quinault Reservation, Washington State. Called by the Indians 'Mikawash'; Chinook jargon for 'wash your sins away.'

Probably Curtright & Son, Tacoma, Washington, 2013.

Michael G. Johnson Collection.