Rifle cover
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Suede
Measurements
1000 mm (Length)140 mm (W)
Place of origin
Fork Selkirk
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1304026
Summary
A suede rifle cover with applied bead decoration to three sections and with wool and bead tassles. The bead decoration has been applied to a red woollen ground with a floral sprigged cotton border. Collected, Fork Selkirk, Yukon, 1907. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton from Fork Selkirk, Yukon, Canada in 1907.