About this Site
Cory Willmott developed the Mapping Anishinaabe Regalia website to visually represent the findings of the items with geographic provenience in the comparative collection for the collaborative strap dress project that she worked on with Siobhan Marks and Neil Oppendike from 2017 to 2021. The data on this site consists of records for 60 examples of "southern" style women's dress and 61 examples of "northern" style women's dress, c.1780-1940. The comparative collection data also includes many items that lack geographic provenance, which are not included on this site. All of these examples of dresses, sleeves, skirts, and dolls on this site are well provenanced in museum collections, and/or well researched by scholars and indigenous artists. An article based on this work is titled, Decolonizing the Museum to Reclaim and Revitalize the Anishinaabe Strap Dress, is published in Winterthur Portfolio 55(2-3): 121-185 (https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/719710). More information to come!