burden strap

burden strap

burden strap

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Introduction

Burden strap made with of vegetable fibre, using the twined weaving technique. The weft thread is wrapped with dyed moosehair as it is woven through the warp threads, to create the complex geometric motifs. Originally from the Bibliothèque Nationale du France.

Nation of Maker: Huron-Wendat Hodenosaunee/Haudenosaunee
Nation of Origin

The MQB catalogue attributes this work to either the Huron-Wendat or the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Both were known for this kind of work.

Date Made or Date Range: Early 18 C to Mid 18 C
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

MQB catalogue and archives.
deStecher, Annette. Engaged Histories: Wendat Women’s Souvenir Artsof Cultural Preservation and Entrepreneurial Invention. PhD dissertation. Ottawa: Carleton University, 2013.Museum Catalogue, dissertation research, Anne de Stecher.

Materials

Moosehair, brown, white, gold/orange, black; vegetable fibre; possibly commercial cord.

Techniques or Format

This strap is woven from vegetable fibre, with dyed moosehair wrapped around the weft threads to create this geometric pattern.

Dimensions: 68 × 5.7 × 0 cm
Condition: Good. Only missing a little moosehair.
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Material in the Bibliothèque Nationale du France was collected before 1792. Autumn Epple thinks based on material and style that the object was made between 1700 and 1760.

Current Location: Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Paris, France
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 71.1878.32.252
Link to Institution's Collections Database: www.quaibranly.fr
Collection Narratives and Histories

The ethnographic works from the Bibliothèque Nationale du France were brought together in this collection at the time of the French Revolution, around 1792. The Bibliothèque Nationale was the national collection of the new French Republic. Many of these works originally came from the Jardin du Roi, the collection of the French kings. In the same period, inventories were made of the possessions of aristocratic families in Paris and the provinces and many objects were selected to be added to the Bibliothèque Nationale. Ethnographic material from the Bibliothèque Nationale was later located at the Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro, then the Musée de l’Homme, and is now in the Musée du quai Branly.AD.

GKS Reference Number: 1400
How to Cite this Item

Unknown artist, burden strap. Currently in the Musée du quai Branly, 71.1878.32.252. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip; GRASAC item id 1400.

Record Creation Context

This record was created by Anne de Stecher during an RAship for Prof. Ruth Phillips.

Copyright

This record will be open access on the completion of Anne de Stecher's dissertation, 2011.

Approximate Place of Origin

43.3, -78.1

Source of Information about Places

MQB catalogue, stylistic.

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