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garter pendant
garter pendant
garter pendant
A nineteenth century finger woven garter pendant with interwoven white glass beads in zigzag and diamond motifs, and fringe of wrapped porcupine quills and metal cones with dyed animal hair. Great Lakes, probably Anishinaabe or Hodenosaunee. Purchased from the widow of the original collector Carl Benjamin Hermann Baron von Rosenberg in 1889.
Museum object card indicates 'Iroquois,' database indicates 'Chippewa'
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Black and red yarn, or possibly bison hair(?); white glass beads; thread; dyed porcupine quills; metal cones; dyed animal hair; yellow silk ribbon
Made with finger woven black and red yarn, or possibly bison hair(?), and thread with interwoven white glass beads. Edged with white glass beads along the sides, with one end of the pendant bound with yellow silk ribbon. On the other end the yarn strands have been braided, wrapped with dyed porcupine quills, and terminate into metal cones filled with dyed animal hair forming a fringe.
Red woven yarn borders black woven yarn. Zigzag lines, double zigzag lines and opposing zigzag lines forming linked diamonds in interwoven beadwork. Alternating red/orange and white in wrapped quillwork of the fringe.
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Provenance
Purchased from the widow of the original collector Carl Benjamin Hermann Baron von Rosenberg in 1889. Was originally registered as part of a breechcloth.