Qu'Appelle Valley Strap Dress

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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

Type

Heritage Item

Physical Dimensions

780.0mm x 20.0mm x 1150.0mm

Item Name

dress

Citation

“Qu'Appelle Valley Strap Dress,” Mapping Anishinaabe Regalia, accessed November 13, 2024, https://iris.siue.edu/anishinaaberegalia/items/show/24.