Tribal Art & Antiquities - 22nd September 2020
Lot 235
A pair of Yakima beaded gauntlets Plateau smoked buckskin with coloured glass beads of floral...
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Description
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.