Made of dark brown bison hair wool or yarn, with interwoven white pony beads, with fringe tassles of wrapped quillwork done in white, red and black dyed quills, terminating in long metal cones containing red dyed deer hair. There are fourteen fringe tassels on one side and twelve on the other. Vegetable fibre thread has been used to sew the two halves together.

Finger woven, with beads interwoven in a pattern, with a quill wrapped fringe. Made of two nearly identitcal pieces sewn together in the middle.

Four parallel lines run vertically along the sash, with a single row of paired opposed short diagnonal lines in the three spaces between them.

Made in the mid-eighteenth century.

Donated to the British Museum by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks in 1893. According to the British Museum object catalogue, Captain Harding and/or Pickering in the Great Lakes region collected this item.

Unknown Anishinaabeg/Haudenosaunee artist, sash. Currently in the British Museum, Am,+.6989. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 25627.

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).