Garter Pendants

Garter Pendants

Garter Pendants

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Introduction

These relatives, a pair of finger-woven garter pendants, are composed of blue wool with white glass beads that have been interwoven in opposed zigzags and other motifs. Tassels at the end of each pendant feature quill-worked red-dyed deer hair tassels threaded through iron-tinned cones. Although the origins of these relatives are not certain, they are believed to have been made in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century and have probable ties to the Anishinaabe or Hodenosaunee/Haudenosaunee.

These relatives currently reside in the National Museum of Ireland.

Name of Maker(s): Unrecorded
Maker role: Artist
Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe Hodenosaunee/Haudenosaunee
Date Made or Date Range: late 18th-early 19th century
Materials

blue woolen yarn, white glass beads, faded red silk ribbon (looks white now), iron tinned cones, red dyed deerhair

Other Notes

Label adhered to relative: "SCIENCE & ART MUSEUM, DUBLIN / 1892 / ART / 3[?]79".

Condition: Note from Nikolaus Stolle: a few of the quill wrapped fringes have blue instead of black quills.
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

National Museum of Ireland records.

Current Location: National Museum of Ireland
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 1880.1904
GKS Reference Number: 26355
How to Cite this Item

Maker, Name unrecorded. Garter pendants. GRASAC ID: 26355. National Museum of Ireland Collection, 1880.1904.

Record Creation Context

This record was augmented by Dana Murray on November 2, 2024. It was informed by notes and images collected during the GRASAC Research trip to the National Museum of Ireland on July 23, 2010. Participants included Alan Corbiere, Ruth Phillips, Crystal Migwans, Rachel Hand, and Nikolaus Stolle, who were assisted by Padraig Clancy and Emma Crosby.

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