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Jerkin-style shirt
unknownc. 1907
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto, Canada
This jerkin-style shirt was owned and worn by The Runner, brother of Chief Carry the Kettle. A woman made the shirt and matching leggings over the course of a year to be worn at a dance on Carry the Kettle, an Assiniboine reserve in Saskatchewan. Edmund Morris purchased the outfit for $27.00 just after the dance on July 20, 1908.
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Details
- Title: Jerkin-style shirt
- Creator: unknown
- Creator Lifespan: unknown
- Date: c. 1907
- Location: Carry the Kettle Reserve, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Physical Dimensions: w97 cm
- Provenance: Edmund Morris Collection
- Type: Shirt
- Rights: Royal Ontario Museum
- Medium: beads; hide
- Length: 66
- Culture: Nakoda (Assiniboine)
- Collector Information: Edmund Morris Collection. Edmund Morris lived from 1871 to 1913, a period of rapid transition in which the Plains Indian tribes shifted from nomadic dependence on the buffalo to settlement on parcels of land called “reserves.” From 1907 to 1911, Edmund journeyed to reserves in the newly formed prairie provinces to create an intimate and thoughtful record of Indian life through pastel sketches, photography, the written word, and a collection of artifacts. As the youngest son of Alexander Morris, the Lieutenant Governor who negotiated most of the Plains Indian treaties, Edmund had a deep commitment to his task. His work provides remarkable insight into the lives of the Plains people and their communities. In 1913 he donated his extraordinary collection of artifacts and his diary to the Royal Ontario Museum, the same year the Province of Ontario transferred to the musuem its collection of 58 Plains portraits by Morris.
- Accession Number: 913.14.389
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