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prisoner tie
prisoner tie
prisoner tie
Woven prisoner tie made from dyed moosehair that creates a complex geometric pattern. Also has quill work and beadwork edging. Possibly Huron-Wendat or Haudenosaunee.
Based on style.
MQB catalogue.
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Vegetable fibre, possibly hemp; dyed moosehair, red, white, brown, blue; small white beads; porcupine quill; hide.
The center section is woven, with dyed moosehair wrapped around the woof threads in the technique known as 'false embroidery'. White beads edge the center section. The extensions from the center section are braided in a round braid and then knotted like chains. Their ends are wrapped in quill.The wrapped ends are of hide.
The center section is a pattern of blue diamonds inside brown and orange sections divided by diagonal lines. Blocks of orange, white and brown parallel lines mark the ends of center section.
Other similar works date from this period. Autumn Epple theorizes it dates between 1700 and 1760.
Provenance
This prisoner tie came originally from the collection of the Bibliothèque Municipale de Versailles. This collection
was first formed at the time of the French Revolution and material was added to it into the nineteenth century. This prisoner tie moved from there to the Musée de l’Homme (Amérique). It is now in the collection of the Musée du quai Branly.
About This GRASAC Record
Unknown artist, prisoner tie. Currently in the Musée du quai Branly, 71.1934.33.77. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip; GRASAC item id 1192.
This record was created by Anne de Stecher during an RAship for Prof. Ruth Phillips.
This record will be restricted until the completion of Anne de Stecher's dissertation, 2011.
43.6511, -79.347
Woven or twined burden straps and prisoner ties such as these were made by the Huron-Wendat and Hodenosaunee in the early eighteenth century, for example works at the British Museum.