Made of dark brown nettlestock fibre or hemp and decorated with dyed moosehair and white size 6 pony beads sewn on with either nettle fibre or another type of thread.

The strap is heddle woven with braided ties. The nettlefibre has been dyed dark brown. Moosehair has been applied with the method of false embroidery.

Rhomboid diamond and rectangular sections are done in moosehair tapestry . There is also a line of little squares of white which almost look like a row of beads.

1700-1810, based on the strap's similarity to one depicted in the Four Kings paintings, done in 1710.

This strap was donated to the British Museum by Irene Marguerite Beasley in 1944. It was previously owned by her husband, Harry Geoffrey Beasley.

Unknown Haudenosaunee artist, tumpline or burden strap. Currently in the British Museum, AM1944,02.253. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 24484.

This record was created as part of a Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC) research trip to the Pitt Rivers Museum and British Museum, December 8-22 2007, funded by a grant from the International Opportunities fund of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

researchers present: Heidi Bohaker (HB), Alan Corbiere (AC), Stacey Loyer (SL), Janis Monture (JM), Ruth Phillips (RP), Anne De Stecher (AS), Cory Willmott (CW).