garters
garters
garters
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Wool yarns (likely worsted), glass beads, plant fiber
Garter woven in narrow stripes of various colors (maroon, red, indigo, green and turquoise). Some of the stands are made up of two colours twisted together, rather than of a solid colour.
White beads in a regular sequence of parallel broken and staggered lines augment the design of horizontal stripes and also edge the garter.
A few of the dyes in garters of this type are puzzling, as the indigenous vegetable dyes would not have produced them, and fur trade records do not mention them (CW). According to Pohrt, the garter is made in a "local style."
Overall dimensions for 81.292.2: 42 x 3.625 in. and dimensions of woven portion: 15.5 x 3.625. Dimensions of woven portion for 81.292.1: 15.375 x 3.75 in.