Made of bison hair and decorated with red dyed and white porcupine quills, metal cones and red dyed deer hair.

Constructed using a netting technique, in which warps are quill wrapped at regular intervals. There are eleven quill wrapped tassels on both sides that terminate in tin cones containing wool and deer hair.

Both the quills used in the netting and tassels are grouped into red and white blocks.

The GRASAC research team stated that this netted sash would have been worn in a formal context.

According to the GRASAC research team, this net was made with a pre-contact technique. The materials could be from the mid-17th through to the 19th century. However, it has the look of an 18th century piece, so it was likely made around 1750.

This item was collected by English ethnologist Henry Christy, who donated it, along with numerous other items, to the British Museum between 1860 and 1869.

JHC King, 'Thunderbird and Lightning' (1982) p.50.

Unknown Anishinaabeg artist, sash. Currently in the British Museum, Am.2643. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 26674.

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).