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1954.9.53

Skin belt covered with geometric patters in fine quillwork of many colours.

1954.9.53

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Collection type
Object
Description
Skin belt covered with geometric patters in fine quillwork of many colours.
Cultural groups
Nehiyawak
Person
Field collector William Henry Blackmore
PRM source Irene Marguerite Beasley
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1931
Date collected
By 1931
Acquisition information
Donated: 1954
Materials and processes
Material Animal Skin, Material Quill, Material Pigment, Material Bead, Process Quillwork, Process Dyed
Dimensions
Width: max 58 mm, Length: max 1045 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1954.9.53 Other numbers: Beasley no. LB41 1.2.1931
Research and responses

The Blackmore Museum was formed by William Blackmore (1827-1878), mainly through his own visits to the USA between 1863 and 1878. I have therefore added William Blackmore as possibly the field collector for this record.

See Taylor, C. 1987. William Blackmore: a 19th-century Englishman’s contribution to American Indian ethnology. In C.F. Feest (eds) Indians and Europe: an interdisciplinary collection of essays. Aachen: Rader Verlag, pp. 321-336. [Dan Hicks 28/08/2012]

Search terms: Clothing, Ornament, Belt, Waist Ornament

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