Woven with dark brown woolen yarn, probably bison hair, and decorated with small yellow pony beads. A piece of beige fabric is sewn onto one end with linen thread. Both ends are decorated with a fringe made from warp threads finished wrapped porcupine quillwork, done with blue, red and yellow dyed quills, terminating with metal cones containing red dyed deer hair. There are four threads on one end and nine on the other.

Finger woven with interwoven beadwork and a fringe of wrapped quillwork.

The beadwork is done in an otter tail motif, with 7 diamonds.

The GRASAC research team suggested it was probably made for fancyor ceremonial dress, to be worn as a thigh garter pendant.

The break in beaded design strongly suggests that this item is a garter pendant.

Materials suggest a date of manufacture between 1750 and 1815.

Part of the Christy Collection, in 1893 this bag was donated to the British Museum by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks. The British Museum object catalogue says it was collected by both Pickering and Captain Harding.

Unknown Anishinaabeg artist, garter, pendant. Currently in the British Museum, Am,+.6988. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 25810.

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), John Borrows (JB), Lindsay Borrows (LB), Alan Corbiere (AC), Henrietta Lidchi (HL), Stacey Loyer (SL), Janis Monture (JM), Bruce Morito (BM), Ruth Phillips (RP), Anne De Stecher (AS), Cory Willmott (CW).