Hide Strap Dress with Short Fringes and Swastika Beadwork

Title

Identifier

1953.179

Description

Home tanned hide dress with two side seams, added fringed flap at center front. Fringes at sides and hem. Straps and front flap decorated with seed and cut beads in linear motifs and swastikas.

Date Created

1936

Source

Anishinaabe

Spatial Coverage

White Earth, MN

Medium

Home tanned deer hide, seed and cut glass beads, thread.

Relation

Is depicted in NARA photograph BIA 1145; 2035 LC

References

Cory Willmott. 2022. Decolonizing the Museum to Reclaim and Revitalize the Anishinaabe Strap Dress. Winterthur Portfolio 55(2):150-1

Coverage

47.22759, -95.72049 (N 47°13′39″ W 95°43′14″)

Item Name

dress

Geoname URL

https://www.geonames.org/5052667/white-earth-reservation.html

Collection

Denver Art Museum

Citation

“Hide Strap Dress with Short Fringes and Swastika Beadwork,” Mapping Anishinaabe Regalia, accessed November 30, 2024, https://iris.siue.edu/anishinaaberegalia/items/show/65.