lacrosse stick

lacrosse stick

lacrosse stick

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Introduction

Carved wood and painted lacrosse stick. Rawhide netting. Painted motifs may represent the Haudenosaunee/Anishinaabe creation stories.

Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe Hodenosaunee/Haudenosaunee
Nation of Origin

Based on motifs which could reference the Haudenosaunee/Anishinaabe creation stories.

Materials

Wood, twisted rawhide, green, red, yellow, white and black paint

Motifs and Patterns

Turtle, long tailed being (muskrat?), trees, cross in sun/circle, domes, leaves, snake with arrow coming out of mouth, painted motifs, now smudged, along webbing, line of red dots on upper wooden frame

Additional Context

The images carved in the panel could reference the creation story - the muskrat/ earth diver, the sun, upper world symbols, the turtle

Dimensions: 123 × 21.5 × 0 cm
Current Location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 922.1.11
Collection at Current Location: Evelyn Johnson/Chiefswood Collection
GKS Reference Number: 27337
How to Cite this Item

Unknown artist, lacrosse stick. Currently in the Royal Ontario Museum, 922.1.11. Item described as part of a GRASAC research trip; GRASAC item id 27337.

Approximate Place of Origin

43.0703, -80.1184

Source of Information about Places

Based on motifs which could reference the Haudenosaunee/Anishinaabe creation stories.

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