burden strap
burden strap
burden strap
Made between 1800-1850, a Hodenosaunee burden strap of woven vegetable fibre with central band decorated with geometric designs in moose hair or quillwork false embroidery. A short warp fringe of small tin cones with animal hair divides the central band in half; one side is embroidered with a sun motif. Purchased from the widow of the original collector Carl Benjamin Hermann Baron von Rosenberg in 1889.
Museum documentation
Museum documentation, GRASAC generated
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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.
Provenance
Purchased from the widow of original collector Carl Benjamin Hermann Baron von Rosenberg in 1889