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garter pendants
garter pendants
garter pendants
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Introduction
Garter pendants made of woven wool yarn with white beads, with tassels of dyed hair and metal cones on long quill-wrapped fringe. Huron-Wendat in origin.
Nation of Maker:
Huron-Wendat
Nation of Origin
MdqB file
Date Made or Date Range:
Early 18 C to Mid 19 C
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Materials
Woven wool yarn, white beads, porcupine quills, metal cones, dyed moosehair
Condition:
Good. Miraculously, most if not all the metal cones are still attached with the moosehair.
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses
Based on materials and style, Autumn Epple theorizes these date between 1700 and 1850.
Provenance
Current Location:
Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Paris, France
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number:
71.1934.33.59.1-2 D
About This GRASAC Record
GKS Reference Number:
26259
How to Cite this Item
Unknown artist, garter pendants. Currently in the Musée du quai Branly, 71.1934.33.59.1-2 D. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip; GRASAC item id 26259.
Approximate Place of Origin