The cloth is of very fine quality red woolen broadcloth; it looks like the same material as the table cloth (Am 1993,06.1). The floral motifs are embroidered with dyed moose-hair, although the BM information sheet says porcupine quill.

The color of the moosehair (possibly quill) is uncertain - possibly it is aniline dye but if so, could be faded. If not aniline, natural dyes were used. It is embroidered with french knot and satin stitch. It was cut as a part to be used as a vamp or a panel.

Naturalistic floral motifs were used.

It was probably made as a piece to be attached to another garment or item as a decorative panel.

Acquisition year is 1860-1869, but because we are not sure about the dye, it is more accurate to say 1850-1869.

Christy was a hatter and also an ethnographer. In 1850 he began a series of journies to study ethnography. See BM biography. He could have bought the cloth piece in Niagara Falls or in Quebec. The Huron-Wendat of Lorette sold these commodity items also Lorette.

Unknown Huron-Wendat artist, cloth, sample or piece. Currently in the British Museum, Am.2597. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 26730.

This record was created as part of a Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC) research trip to the Pitt Rivers Museum and British Museum, Dec.8-22, 2007, funded by a grant from the International Opportunities Fund of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).