The relative is a finger woven wool sash in multiple colours of yarn, adorned with white pony beads, and has fringes on both ends. It is Ojibwe, probably dating to 1780. The yarn pattern consists of four thinner stripes along the top in brown, red, green and orange with a line of beads arranged in a zig zag pattern along each stripe. A wider stripe is seen next in a darker green with eight parallel zigzags of beads, and finally one thinner stripe in red at the bottom with the bead arrangement in a diamond pattern. A thin stripe of red runs between alternating rows of beading and yellow stitches along the middle green stripe.  The ends of each stripe are woven into a braided fringe. Beads are woven into the braided fringes on one end of the sash but missing on the other. There is some noticeable fraying of the fringes on both sides. The ancestor is currently housed at the Detroit Institute of Arts, USA.

Detroit Institute of Arts documentation

Detroit Institute of Arts documentation