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Head or arm band made of porcupine quills and birch bark on hide.
Great Lakes
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Made of white, red and black dyed porcupine quills, hide and birch bark.
Porcupine quills are wrapped around birch bark.
Jonathan King of the British Museum suggested it could have been used as a headband or an arm band.
Provenance
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Unknown artist, unknown object. Currently in the British Museum, Am1991,9.7. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 26524.
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), Darlene Johnston (DJ), Jonathan King (JK), Stacey Loyer (SL), Janis Monture (JM), Bruce Morito (BM), Ruth Phillips (RP), Cory Willmott (CW).