Jane Walters and Companion Demonstrating Lacemaking at the 1904 Worlds Fair

Jane Walters and Companion Demonstrating Lacemaking at the 1904 Worlds Fair

Women in costume making lace (Supplied title)

P17543

Jane Walters (seated) and unnamed woman (standing, who is probably the same woman named "Mary" in MNHS 57564) pose in a studio. Mrs. Walters is demonstrating how to make white bobbin lace. Both women wear strap dress ensembles with multiple strands of bead necklaces. Both wear Plains-style moccasins and braided hair.

Charles H. Carpenter (1859-1949)

1904

Anishinaabe

St. Louis, MO, Leech Lake, MN

Jane Walters of Leech Lake, MN, AKA Shaw Wash E Quey, was the daughter of Mi-Gisins (Little Eagle) and the wife of George Walters. She no doubt participated in the lace-making program at Leech Lake, while at the same time she remained embedded in traditional customs, being chosen to carry the eagle staff at the White Earth June 14th Celebration and always seen wearing a strap dress. This is one of six photographs of Jane Walters found at three different institutions. Follow the links in the Relations field to see the others.

Paul Warner Collection

Series in this photoshoot include P19203, P22762, P37593, and P17543

Jane Walters (AKA Mrs. George Walters, Shaw Wash E Quey)

Cory Willmott. 2021. Decolonizing the Museum to Reclaim and Revitalize the Anishinaabe Strap Dress. Winterthur Portfolio 55(2/3): 160-3.

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