Nettle fiber (natural color); buffalo wool (?, or dyed nettle); wool yarn (red and blue - heavily moth eaten); printed cotton cloth with machine stitched narrow hem as if it were the edge of a handkerchief (red, brown, tan, yellow)

Twined - including warp faced and alternative warp.

Different motifs on either side. Both sides have interior rectangular design field filled with geometric repeating motifs. These are flanked by vertical stripes of design fields, first a pair with red and blue diamond motifs and second a pair with natural and black horizontal stripes on one side and rows of triangles on the other. Side A interior field consists of alternating rows of variations of diamonds and hourglasses. There is a play between positive and negative spaces. One can also see it in terms or alternating columns (AGG), or as individual design units that blend into one another. The other side also plays on diamonds and hourglass motifs, but these are made into "pinwheel" motifs.

Container for bundle. Has a small scrap of red printed cotton tied to the top. Diamonds = Underwater panthers; Hourglasses = T-birds (DP) (see Ruth Phillips article in Great Lakes Indian Art)

c. 1850 (DP tentative)

Cory Willmott, Alan Corbiere, Adrianna Grecci Green and David Penney conducted research on site at the Peabody Museum for Archaeology and Ethnology in July 2007 with help from Susan Haskell and Patricia Capone of the PMAE. Cory Willmott's research was funded by a grant from the American Philosophical Society. Al Corbiere was supported through Ruth Phillips's SSHRC Canada Research Chair Funding. An internal grant from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville provided Cory with an RA, Ceara Horsley, for 2009 and 2010 to work on GRASAC data entry. (CW & CH)