brooch, trade silver
brooch, trade silver
brooch, trade silver
Circular brooch made of silver with scalloped edges. Pierced crescent-shaped openings, and engraved lines surround large circular perforation in the centre. Dr. Oronhyatekha Ethnology collection.
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Silver
Concavo-convex silver, engraved and perforated. Hinged pin attached for fastening.
Scalloped edges, large circular perforation. Crescent-shaped openings bordering the scalloped rim form an octagonal shape; crescent-shaped openings with engraving that surround the large centre perforation create possible equal armed cross shape.
Provenance
F. Barlow Cumberland, Catalogue and Notes of the Oronhyatekha Historical Collection (Toronto: Independent Order of Foresters, 1904), p 65, Item 405. "Silver buckles, six octagonal, perforated."
About This GRASAC Record
Unknown artist, brooch, trade silver. Currently in the Royal Ontario Museum, 911.3.186. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2008; GRASAC item id 1565.
Record created as a result of a GRASAC-sponsored research trip to the Royal Ontario Museum, December 15-19, 2008. Research costs supported by a SSHRC Aboriginal Research Grant (2007-2010, Ruth Phillips, PI). Record created during post-trip clean up by project RA Lisa Truong, under the supervision of Heidi Bohaker.