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garter, thigh or arm
garter, thigh or arm
garter, thigh or arm
Fingerwoven thigh or arm garter decorated with interwoven beadwork. Anishinaabeg or Haudenosaunee, made between 1715 and 1850. Purchased by the British Museum from the Yorkshire Philosophical Society Museum in 1921.
Anishinaabeg Haudenosaunee: RP based the nation of origin attribution upon stylistic characteristics.
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Made of dark red and dark brown woolen yarn, possibly bison hair. Decorated with small white pony beads.
Finger woven with interwoven beadwork. There is a patch of yellow in the centre of belt and two-thirds of the way down the fringe which was produced by a resist dye or bleaching process.
A single large meander line and a single row of parallel bead edging.
Based upon stylistic characteristics and knowledge of when British officers were in the region, it was likely made between 1750 and 1815.
Provenance
Purchsed by the British Museum from the Yorkshire Philosophical Society Museum in 1921.
About This GRASAC Record
Unknown artist, garter, thigh or arm. Currently in the British Museum, Am1921,1014.105. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 25946.
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, December 8-22 2007, funded by a grant from the International Opportunities fund of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
Researchers present: Heidi Bohaker (HB), John Borrows (JB), Lindsay Borrows (LB), Alan Corbiere (AC), Henrietta Lidchi (HL), Stacey Loyer (SL), Janis Monture (JM), Bruce Morito (BM), Ruth Phillips (RP), Anne De Stecher (AS), Cory Willmott (CW).