Made of porcupine quills, hide smoked and dyed dark brown; strip of smoked and dyed hide in medium brown; and thread.

Woven panel of quills with darker strip of hide in undulating pattern with a rectangular thinner strip on bottom; quill embroidery along top edge; back side the quills are brighter in colour; hide still smells smoked.

Quills are in a geometric pattern; on the hide there are concentric circles, with a zigzag of quills on bottom of brown hide.

Quills are like 'beads' that are woven similar to how a wampum belt is made; quills natural and dyed (yellowish, black, blue and red-orange).

Johann Georg Schwarz collected this item, possibly when he traveled to Detroit and through Upper Canada in the winter of 1820-1821.

Johann Georg Schwarz traveled to Detroit and through Upper Canada in the winter of 1820-1821.

Unknown Indigenous artist, trimming. Currently in the Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 12014. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip January 2016; GRASAC item id 59014.

In January of 2016, a small team of GRASAC researchers visited the collection to study and photograph it: Ruth Phillips, Lisa Truong, Naomi Recollet (Anishinaabe (Odawa/Ojibwe), Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory) and Wahsontiio Cross (Mohawk, Kahnawake). This GKS record was created in December 2021 by GRASAC RA Amelia Healey.

Created using a spreadsheet with information made by Ruth Phillips, Lisa Truong, Naomi Recollet (Anishinaabe (Odawa/Ojibwe), Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory) and Wahsontiio Cross (Mohawk, Kahnawake).