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Garter pendants
Garter pendants
Garter pendants
These relatives, a pair of garter pendants, are composed of red and green wool yarn, white glass beads, red stroud, silk ribbon, red-dyed hair, porcupine quills, and commercial thread. Collected by British Army officer Jasper Grant between 1800 and 1809, the date that these relatives were made was not recorded. Although the origins of these relatives are not certain, they have probable connections to the Anishinaabe.
These relatives currently reside in the National Museum of Ireland.
This information is based on the use of ribbonwork applique. It was informed by the following resource: Phillips, Ruth. Patterns of Power: Kleinburg, On.: McMichael Canadian Collection, 1984.
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Wool yarn, red and green; beads, white glass; stroud, red; gros-grain silk ribbon, pink, dark blue, light blue, and white; animal hair, red-dyed; porcupine quills, white, blue, red and black; commercial thread.
Label adhered to one pendant: "SCIENCE & ART MUSEUM, DUBLIN / 1902 / ART / 316".
Jasper Grant served as commandant of Fort George in the Niagara Peninsula and of Fort Malden at Amherstburg opposite Detroit from 1800-1809.
Provenance
Jasper Grant (1762-1812), Anglo-Irish officer who spent 9 years in Canada between 1800-1809. Served as commandant of Fort George in the Niagara Peninsula and of Fort Malden at Amherstburg opposite Detroit. It is likely that his wife, Isabella Grant, played a significant role in the collection of items given her close relationship to Madeline Askin Richardson, the daughter of a prominent fur trader and merchant with extensive ties to the surrounding Indigenous communities.
GRASAC researcher notes from research trip to the National Museum of Ireland on July 22, 2010.
In 1984-1985 the Jasper Grant Collection was featured in a special travelling exhibition for the Ontario bicentennial, which was organized by the McMichael Canadian Collection and entitled "Patterns of Power."
Phillips, Ruth. Patterns of Power. Kleinburg, On.: McMichael Canadian Collection, 1984.
Philips, Ruth B. (1986-87). “Jasper Grant and Edward Walsh: the Gentleman-Soldier as Early Collector of Great Lakes Indian Art.” Journal of Canadian Studies 21(4): 56-71.
About This GRASAC Record
Maker, Name unrecorded. Garter pendants. GRASAC ID: 26937. National Museum of Ireland Collection, 1902.316-317.
This record was augmented by Dana Murray on November 23, 2024. It was informed by notes and photographs collected during a GRASAC research trip to the National Museum of Ireland on July 22, 2010. Participants included Alan Corbiere, Ruth Phillips, Crystal Migwans, and Nicholas Stolle, who were assisted by Padraig Clancy and Emma Crosby.
42.107, -83.1132
This information was informed by the following resource: Phillips, Ruth. Patterns of Power. Kleinburg, On.: Patterns of Power, 1984. Fort Malden is identified on the map as a possible origin for this relative, but this reflects only one place where the relative may have lived. It is not a known place of origin; it is only one location associated with where the collector, Jasper Grant, served in the British Army.