breechcloth
breechcloth
breechcloth
Place of Origin:
Six Nations of the Grand River Territory
Date Made or Date Range:
/1915
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Materials
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Other Notes
Man's breechcloth, made from black broadcloth in a long, unseamed rectangle. Top ends and part of side edge are bound with blue satin ribbon. There is an edging of opaque white beads along bound edge - every other bead is attached at right angles to beads along the edge of the material. On the front, there is a border pattern consisting of a transverse line of opaque white beads, with small triangles of the same beads worked along the top of the line. Beading is with cotton thread.;;
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Provenance
Current Location:
Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa, Canada
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number:
III-I-1045 b
Collection Narratives and Histories
1915/07/01 - 1915/09/30, Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada, (Waugh) Two breechcloths, the most heavily beaded is a man's; the other a youth's. Mrs. John Gibson.
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GKS Reference Number:
24386
Approximate Place of Origin