Woven beadwork. Light blue and red-on-white glass seed beads in linear geometric design on white ground, red and yellow wool yarn fringe mixed with cotton warp threads at one end, braided warp threads and small amount of yarn at opposite end. Square weave.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Northern Great Lakes, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northern Great Lakes
Culture or time period:
Upper Great Lakes cultures
Collector:
Francis C. Hutchens
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 87.5 centimeters and width 7 centimeters
Comment:
References: "The Art of the Great Lakes Indians", exhibition organized by Flint Institute of Art, 1973, p. 57, #224.