stick, lacrosse

stick, lacrosse

stick, lacrosse

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Introduction

This lacrosse stick is fashioned from a single piece of ash. It has a cylindrical shaft that leads to a bent wood hooped, circular head secured with two nails on the inside, and hide lashing through a hole on the shaft. There is also a peg inserted to tighten the lashing. The net is an equidistant cross-shaped, made from a thong of home-tanned hide and a thong of rawhide. This ancestor is identified as Anishinaabe and currently resides at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

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

DIA records

Place of Origin: Michigan, USA
Date Made or Date Range: 1875
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

Detroit Institute of Arts records and GRASAC researchers' notes.

Materials

Ash wood

Techniques or Format

Lacrosse stick, made from a single piece of ash, with a cylindrical shaft. Bent wood head hooped into a circle and secured with two nails on the inside, and hide lashing through a hole on the shaft with a peg inserted to tighten the lashing. Equidistant cross-shaped net in the hoop made from a thong of home-tanned hide and a thong of rawhide.
Cory Willmott observerd that some of the hide thong looks home-tanned, and some looks commercial, or treated in some way because it is shiny on one side.

Dimensions: 35.125 × 4.625 × 1 in
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

DIA records

Current Location: Detroit Institute of Arts, MI, USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 81.123
Collection at Current Location: Richard Pohrt, Jr. Collection
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1981
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: Richard A. Pohrt
Collection Narratives and Histories

Formerly in the collection of: Arthur Abraham, Flint, Michigan, 1955

Source for Provenance information

DIA records

GKS Reference Number: 27082
Record Creation Context

This record was augmented by Cara Krmpotich on January 30, 2024. The images were removed from this record to respect an agreement between the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Michigan Anishinaabeg Communities of Practice group.

Approximate Place of Origin

43.7918, -84.2994

Source of Information about Places

DIA Records

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