Woven from an orange-red and green woolen yarn, whose colours may have originally been red and black, before fading. Decorated with interwoven small white pony beads strung on beige thread. The braided warps on both sides are wrapped with porcupine quills and terminate with large metal cones containing red dyed deer hair.

Finger woven, decorated with interwoven beadwork. Wrapped quillwork finishes the fringe made from braided warps. There are five metal cones on both ends of each garter.

A row of double diamonds.

Made before 1857 to 1869, as this is when Henry Christy was in the Great Lakes area and would have collected them.

Collected by English ethnologist Henry Christy. This item, along with several others collected by Christy, was donated to the British Museum between 1860 and 1869.

Unknown Anishinaabe/Haudenosaunee artist, garters. Currently in the British Museum, Am.2578.a-b. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 24452.

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).