strap, tumpline or burden

strap, tumpline or burden

strap, tumpline or burden

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Introduction

A woven tumpline or burden strap decorated with moosehair embroidery and edged with beads. Hodenosaunee. Collected by W.O. Oldman and held at the Chichester Museum before it was purchased by the British Museum in 1949.

Nation of Maker: Hodenosaunee/Haudenosaunee
Nation of Origin

British Museum accession record.

Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

Created from information in the British Museum object catalogue.

Materials

vegetable fibre; moosehair dyed red, blue, black and white; beads, white

Techniques or Format

The strap is woven, with the central portion widened and ornamented with moosehair embroidery and beads.

Motifs and Patterns

Geometric motifs.

Dimensions: 58 × 5.6 × 0 in
Current Location: British Museum, London, UK
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: Am1949,22.126
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1949
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: W.O. Oldman and Mrs. D.K. Oldman
Collection Narratives and Histories

Collected by W.O. Oldman and held at the Chichester Museum before it was purchased from Mrs D. K. Oldman by the British Museum in 1949.

Exhibition History

British Museum, North American Gallery: First peoples, first contacts, 2004

Publication History

JCH King, 'Thunderbird and Lightning' (British Museum Press, 1982) p.75.

Comment on Source of Exhibition & Publication Data

British Museum object catalogue.

GKS Reference Number: 25606
Record Creation Context

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).

Record Creation Notes/Observations

Researchers present: Heidi Bohaker (HB), John Borrows (JB), Lindsay Borrows (LB), Darlene Johnston (DJ), Jonathan King (JK), Stacey Loyer (SL), Janis Monture (JM), Bruce Morito (BM), Ruth Phillips (RP), Cory Willmott (CW).

Approximate Place of Origin

43.7918, -84.2994

Source of Information about Places

British Museum accession record.

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