trade silver object

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Introduction

Circular brooch or earring made of trade silver with perforated eight pointed star or web pattern. May be an earring due to having been part of a pair. Dr. Oronhyatekha Ethnology collection.

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Materials

Trade silver

Techniques or Format

Flat silver perforated disk.

Motifs and Patterns

Eight pointed star or web pattern

Other Notes

Oronohyateka catalogue suggests this could also be worn as an earring, and it was originally collected as part of a pair - perhaps an earwheel.

Dimensions: 0 × 0 × 0 cm

Provenance

Current Location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 911.3.183B, HD 6328B

Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1911

Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: Independent Order of Foresters

Publication History

F. Barlow Cumberland, Catalogue and Notes of the Oronhyatekha Historical Collection (Toronto: Independent Order of Foresters, 1904), p 65, Item 409. "Breast Ornaments, two large flat circular, perforated pattern, used also as earrings."

About This GRASAC Record

GKS Reference Number: 521

How to Cite this Item

Unknown artist, trade silver object. Currently in the Royal Ontario Museum, 911.3.183B. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2008; GRASAC item id 521.

Record Creation Context

Record created as a result of a GRASAC-sponsored research trip to the Royal Ontario Museum, December 15-19, 2008. Research costs supported by a SSHRC Aboriginal Research Grant (2007-2010, Ruth Phillips, PI). Record created during post-trip clean up by project RA Lisa Truong, under the supervision of Heidi Bohaker.

Approximate Place of Origin

43.6, -71.9

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