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Loom woven bandolier strap or belt, diamond/hourglass pattern on one side and stepped zig zag on the other; beaded tabs on both ends.
Nettle fiber bag with different motifs on each side, but both sides have diamonds and hourglasses.
Plains style home tanned hide with applique beaded panels with geometric motifs and rough fringes on sides and cuffs. Collected in Desbarats, Ontario; possibly Hiawatha pageant costume.
Moosehair embroidered vamps for moccasins with cloverleaf pattern, made by Caroline Groslouis, Huron-Wendat (Huron), 1900s.
A beaded bandolier bag with no pocket. Anishinaabe, made between 1880 and 1910. Donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum from the Cheltenham Museum, UK, in 1945.
European style frock coat of caribou (?)skin with painted designs, with wide v-shaped lapels, full length sleeves, fitted waist and flared back. Doule breasted, eight metal buttons, design is linear, mainly long narrow triangles. Double curve motif appears at shoulders, collected by Earl of Caledon
Six strings of white and purple wampum beads. Northeastern North American. Originally part of the collection of Sir Edward Burnett Tylor. Doanted to the Pitt Rivers Museum by Lady Tylor in 1917.
epaulettes with embroidered moosehair, made by Caroline Groslouis, collected by Marius Barbeau, 1912, Huron-Wendat (Huron), Lorette, Quebec, 1900s.
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Military-style "snare drum of British manufacture, painted on both sides with Anishinaabe images" (Buchanan & Hewitt 2017, 292). Anishinaabeg, from the Hudson's Bay lands, probably Manitoulin Island. Collected around 1856 by Henry Christy and donated to the British Museum between 1858 and 1860.
This is a pair of oˀę:naˀ or snowsnakes, also described as mudcat (a pair). Both snowsnakes are made of wood, lead tips, with three metal nails through the top part of the snake. There are zig zag patterns at the tips. They are identified as
A model of a bark canoe, with two wax dolls and various items. Likely of Anishinaabe origin, and produced in a convent between 1750-1790. Part of the Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection.
Birch bark purse decorated with porcupine quillwork. Anishinaabeg, from Manitoulin Island. Collected by Henry Christy in 1856 and donated to the British Museum between 1860 and 1869.
Shallow dish made of sweetgrass and birch bark, decorated with a five-pointed star in quillwork. Anishinaabeg, 19th century, probably from Manitoulin. One of several items collected by Father Edward Purbrick in 1879 and donated to Stonyhurst College. Part of the collection purchased by the British
Needle case made of unsmoked animal hide, decorated with silk embroidered strawberry and raspberry motifs. Métis, made in the nineteenth century.
Moccasins.
wampum belt with 4 diagonal lines, collected by D. C. Ewing, piece acquired from the Heye Foundation in 1930, Onkwehonwe (Hodenosaunee, Iroquois), possibly 1800s.
Lacrosse stick. Anishinaabeg. Collected by Noldwritt and purchased by the British Museum from G R Harding in 1891.