vegetable fibre (possibly Indian hemp?); dyed moose hair (or possibly porcupine quills?); glass beads; tin cones; dyed animal hair

The strap is made of woven vegetable fibre with a widened central portion ornamented with dyed moose hair(?) and edged with glass beads. The moosehair is wrapped around the thin weft threads of the twined strap in false embroidery technique or surface technique. The ends of the strap terminate into loose fringe of quill wrapped fibre cord with tin cones. At the centre of the embroidered portion of the strap, ends of the surface warps terminate into a short fringe of quill wrapped fibres with small tin cones and dyed animal hair.

One half of embroidered portion is ornamented in geometric designs, other half is ornamented in geometric designs with sun motif in the centre.

Each half of embroidered portion are embroidered with different sized glass beads.

Purchased from the widow of original collector Carl Benjamin Hermann Baron von Rosenberg in 1889