Belt

Belt

Belt

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Introduction

Belt of commercial beige canvas, with applied beadwork using an alternating flower & leaf design, blue bead edging, metal eye loops & hooks fastening

Nation of Maker: Ojibwe Anishinaabe
Nation of Origin

Artefact's catalogue record postulates possible Salteaux origins as well.

Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

Museum catalogue records, dated: 2010-01-20

Materials

Fabric, beige canvas, cotton; Beads, white, green red, blue, pink, purple orange, silver; metal, hooks.

Techniques or Format

Applied beadwork to commercial cloth; Top surface decorated with closed backed applied floral stem and leaf bead design on white field; Design elements repeated in alternating pattern; Bordered on upper and lower edges with blue beads using a lazy stitch; One end of the belt has three cloth loops with three metal metal eyes, Other end had two metal hooks, with a third possibly missing.

Motifs and Patterns

Flower and leaves

Original and Subsequent Uses

personal accessory

Dimensions: 89.6 × 9 × 0 cm
Condition: Good; Some beadwork broken.
Current Location: Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: H4-11-87
Link to Institution's Collections Database: https://manitobamuseum.ca/main/collections-research/collections-database/
Collection at Current Location: Cultural Anthropology Collection
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1980
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: Unknown
Collection Narratives and Histories

Possibly a donation

GKS Reference Number: 27265
How to Cite this Item

Manitoba Museum

Record Creation Context

2013 summer internship at The Manitoba Museum.

Record Creation Notes/Observations

Photo's taken by Dr Cory Willmott.

Approximate Place of Origin

43.0703, -80.1184

Source of Information about Places

Catalogue records attribute the belt to the Eastern Sub-Arctic.

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