lacrosse stick

lacrosse stick

lacrosse stick

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Introduction

An Ojibwe wooden painted lacrosse stick, with a leather net. Part of the Pearsall collection, acquired in December, 1963.

Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular nation(s)

FLMNH records; identified as "Chippewa" by F. Dockstader

Date Made or Date Range: 1850s to 1950
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

FLMNH records

Materials

wood; rawhide; shoelace; leather; paint

Techniques or Format

One-piece construction; long wood handle, thinned at top, steamed and bent into circle; shoelaces and rawhide tie the circle closed; netting of leather thongs attached to perimeter of circle then joined in middle; handle painted with polychrome geometric motifs

Motifs and Patterns

geometric

Dimensions: 0 × 11.5 × 0 cm
Condition: fair: paint fading
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

FLMNH records identify this as late 19th to early century.

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: P0384
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1963-12-17
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: 1900/1960
Collection Narratives and Histories

Items purchased on the art market by Col. Leigh M. Pearsall between 1900 and 1960. Purchased from Pearsall by the University of Florida Endowment Corp., the collection contains several thousand archeological and ethnographic specimens chiefly from North America, and comprises a large portion of the FLMNH's ethnographic collection.

GKS Reference Number: 25979
Record Creation Notes/Observations

Made from the records of the FLMNH

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