sash, finger woven

sash, finger woven

sash, finger woven

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Introduction

A fingerwoven sash made of red wool and decorated with white pony bead inlay. Anishinaabe or Haudeosaunee, made between 1730 to 1790. Collected by L. Conningham around 1909, and donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1954 by Irene Marguerite Beasley.

Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe Hodenosaunee/Haudenosaunee
Nation of Origin

Based on style.

Date Made or Date Range: 1730s to 1790s
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

Museum documentation

Materials

woolen yarn, red; pony beads, small white.

Techniques or Format

The sash is finger woven, with warps braided and gathered into tassels. On the other edges of the sash, four warps are gathered into straight strands with diagonal lines beaded into them.

Motifs and Patterns

Intersecting diagonal lines, which form squares and rectangles.

Original and Subsequent Uses

Could have been a garter. It is about the right length for a "swaggery" thigh garter. (LP)

Dimensions: 171 × 12.4 × 0 cm
Condition: Very good.
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

1730-1790. It is very similar to another sash in the Pitt Rivers collection with this date range and attribution (1884.96.4), having the same fringe and double warp treatments.

Current Location: Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 1954.9.14
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1954
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: Irene Marguerite Beasley
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: c. 1909
Collection Narratives and Histories

Donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1954 by Irene Marguerite Beasley. Harry Geoffrey Beasley bought the item from Mrs. Blewitt-Dowling, who acquired it from L. Conningham. L. Conningham collected the item around 1909.

GKS Reference Number: 24790
Record Creation Context

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).

Record Creation Notes/Observations

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

Approximate Place of Origin

45.8, -83.9

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