Qu'Appelle Valley Strap Dress
Title
Qu'Appelle Valley Strap Dress
Identifier
1930.822 (CR 97 [Rymill number])
Description
Blue stroud base with red stroud straps and extension at hem. Four horizontal rows of white seed beads in lane stitch around skirt with tassels terminating in thimbles at intervals.
Date Created
1930, before
Source
Cree or Anishinaabe
Spatial Coverage
File Hills, Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada
Abstract
The dress was conserved by Morwena Stephens, in preparation for the exhibition, Trade Cloth, at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, 8 May to 4 September 2004 and continued at The Museum in the Park, Stroud, 8 October 2005 – 16 April 2006.
Medium
Blue and red stroud cloth; white, navy and greasy turquoise seed beads; brass thimbles.
Provenance
Collected by Robert and John Rymill on one of four reservations around Fort Qu'Appelle during the Franklin Motor Expedition, 1929. Clarke, Louis Colvile Gray [monetary donor].
Is Part Of
Rymell Collection
Subject
fur trade strap dress
References
Brown, Alison K. 2014. First Nations, Museums, Narrations: Stories of the 1929 Franklin Motor Expedition to the Canadian Prairies. Vancouver: UBC Press.
Willmott, Cory. 2022. Decolonizing the Museum to Reclaim and Revitalize the Anishinaabe Strap Dress. Winterthur Portfolio 55(2):121-185
Willmott, Cory. 2022. Decolonizing the Museum to Reclaim and Revitalize the Anishinaabe Strap Dress. Winterthur Portfolio 55(2):121-185
Type
Heritage Item
Physical Dimensions
780.0mm x 20.0mm x 1150.0mm
Item Name
dress
Institution URL
Citation
“Qu'Appelle Valley Strap Dress,” Mapping Anishinaabe Regalia, accessed September 19, 2024, https://iris.siue.edu/anishinaaberegalia/items/show/24.