Dress
Mary Gloade, Mi‘kmaq / Canadian, 19th century, Mi‘kmaq (Micmac), Wabanaki, First Nation, Northeast Woodlands, Woodlands
late 19th century
Leather, glass beads, cloth, metal and shell buttons, and thread
Overall: 49 3/16 in. (125 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III
181.2.26063
Geography/Culture
North America, Canada
Period
19th century
Object Name
Clothing: Outerwear
Classification
Native American
Native American: Woodlands
Not on view
Provenance
Purported to have been "made and owned by Princess Mary Gloade, daughter of Chief Gloade, first person to go to shake hands with Queen Victoria when the Queen was a small girl." [Victoria never visited Nova Scotia]; collected by Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1920‘s-1930‘s; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father‘s will], 1981.
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