Belt

Belt

Belt

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Introduction

Rectangular loom woven opaque and semi-translucent glass bead panel, geometric designs, hourglass-shaped end pieces are smoked tanned hide with long fringes

Nation of Maker: Potawatomi Odawa Ojibwe
Nation of Origin

based on catalogue records

Place of Origin: Manitoulin Island, ON
Date Made or Date Range: Late 19th C; Early 20th C
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

Summary of catalogue Description

Materials

Loom woven panel of opaque and semi-translucent glass beads, Smoked tanned hide with long fringes, Cotton thread.

Techniques or Format

Long rectangular loom woven panel, Opaque and semi-translucent glass beads, Woven with cotton string warps and wefts, End pieces are smoked tanned hide with long fringes, Each end piece is hourglass shaped and sewn with thread.

Motifs and Patterns

Designs are geometric, Along centre are alternating blue and yellow rectangles with a row of red along one edge, Along top are red and white triangles alternating with white rectangles, triangles are separated by rows of white and black, Along bottom are inverted and upright pink and white triangles separated by rows of red and white, Along top and bottom edges is an inner border of two red and white rows.

Original and Subsequent Uses

Belt

Dimensions: 142 × 3.8 × 0 cm
Condition: Very Good, Beads intact, Hide dirty.
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Catalogue records

Current Location: Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: HBC 005-13
Link to Institution's Collections Database: https://manitobamuseum.ca/main/collections-research/collections-database/
Collection at Current Location: Hudson's Bay Company Museum Collection
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 2004/01/11
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: Great granddaughter of NMWJ McKenzie
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: Late 19th C; Early 20th C
Previous Collectors: McKenzie
Collection Narratives and Histories

Originally in the collection of Nathaniel Murdock William John McKenzie. Collection records include a note which identifies it as a "Manitoulin Island, Belt".

GKS Reference Number: 58802
How to Cite this Item

Manitoba Museum

Approximate Place of Origin

45.7335, -82.1694

Source of Information about Places

Attributed to Northeast Great Lakes-Riverine Geo-Cultural area.

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