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Collection: Warnock
Item Number: WC8308077
Category: Garters - Garter pendants
Region: Northeast
Tribe: Ojibwa-Chippewa - Eastern Ojibwa, Ottawa?
Period: 1775-1800
Materials: Black and yellow wool yarn; vegetable fiber; dyed and natual porcupine quills; tin cones; red dyed animal (moose?) hair; white glass beads.
Description: Finger woven black yarn decorated with white beads which have been woven into the garters to create a series of diamond patterns. One end decorated with netted quillwork in the image of a thunderbird. Both ends decorated with tin cones and animal hair.
Dimensions: Length 30 inches 76.2 cm
Provenance:
Charles Messiter Collection
Alexander Gallery
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.
Exhibitions:
Akicita, The Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, May 17 1983 - July 10, 1983
Splendid Heritage, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, May 27, 1995 - September 27, 1995,
Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, October 23, 1998 - October 3, 1999
References:
Sotheby's Auction Catalogue, Sotheby's, New York, Sale 4842Y, Lot 304, April 24, 1982
Penny, David W. and George C. Longfish, Native American Art, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Detroit, 1994, pp 57
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