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Glove
- Description
- Left handed leather glove with blue, red and green beaded floral design. Red band across wrist area formed by groupings of 2 beads side by side and spaced in a row. Top wrist area leather cut in jagged design.
- Artist or Maker
- Ellen Hankin Widen
- Original Owner
- Ellen Hankin Widen
- Category
- PERSONAL OBJECTS
- Sub-Category
- CLOTHING, ACCESSORY
- Start Date
- 1915
- End Date
- 1986
- Description
- Left handed leather glove with blue, red and green beaded floral design. Red band across wrist area formed by groupings of 2 beads side by side and spaced in a row. Top wrist area leather cut in jagged design.
- Narrative
- Ellen Hankin Widen was born December 1903 in Hagwilget to Herbert Hankin and Annie Tiljoe. She married Emil Widen in 1922, marriage certificate indicates she resided in both Hagwilget and Moricetown (Witset) at the time. Emil and Ellen later resided in Houston, and Telkwa. According to donor (granddaughter) Ellen tanned hides and sewed shoes (moccasins), gloves, etc. Ellen died in May 1986. She is referred to as the "first white child born in the Bulkley Valley" in Bulkley Valley Stories.
- Cultural Context
- Witsuwit'en
- Width
- 14
- Length
- 25
- Units Of Measurement
- Centimeters
- Dimension Notes
- Length is approximate, fingers cannot be fully extended. Width measurement taken at widest point across upper wrist.
- Accession No.
- 2012.71.3
- Type of Record
- Museum Artifact
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