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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Slykitty65, post: 825196, member: 7985&quot;]Beautiful pair of beaded gauntlets! I think they are midcentury-modern (1930&#039;s-60&#039;s) well made with great care to detail on the beadwork. The lining is becoming threadbare in spots, so take care as to not disturb that too much. I have worked with several Ojibwa tribes over the years in MI and MN that which this is a common motif with woodland tribes. My late husband&#039;s great grandmother was Ojibwa originally from Turtle Mountain and walked the entire trip to Fort Snelling in Minnesota when she was in her 20s and settled here. I inherited a beaded necklace she made when she was young, she passed in 1900. It was strung with deer sinue and leather strips, the sinue is so fragile that over time a few beads had gotten lost. I took it to a Native American beading shop and they were able to date the beads and find matching replaces for bead and sinue. The gloves look to be sewn with cotton coat thread maybe. I have attended and helped make Pow Wow Fancy Dance dresses for friends. Tradition is for the person to make their own traditional dress, sometimes beads are passed down to family, the turquoise beads on the gloves look like mine on the necklace. The gauntlets have darkened palm/fingers areas which looks to me like use you would find on pony/horse riding gloves. I have seen riders at the State Fair who have dressed as such in past years in the arena. It would be helpful to find more history on the grandmother for the provenance of the piece, maybe she was a show rider? She may have had ribbons won that would be nice to add with it in a showcase. Lots of wonderful comments from everyone![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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