Hide Strap Dress with Painted Motifs and Beading
Title
Hide Strap Dress with Painted Motifs and Beading
Identifier
1942.237
Description
Painted white hide shift dress with seed bead decorations at bottom of chest flap and between panels at hem. Painted motifs at waist, hip and hem consisting of horizontal lines, scallops and alternating triangles and rectangles. Leather thongs at shoulders instead of straps.
Date Created
1880, before
Source
Barren Ground Naskapi
Spatial Coverage
Shefferville, Labrador; Matimekosh Indian Reserve #3
Medium
Unsmoked caribou hide (note bug bite marks on hide), red, brown, bright blue and dark blue pigment, glass seed beads.
Provenance
Frank Speck collected mainly around Lac St-Jean (Mashteuiatsh; usually given as "Lake St. John" by Speck), St-Augustin (usually "St. Augustine" in Speck) and interior nomadic Naskapi, now settled at Matimekosh Reserve.
Coverage
54.80022, -66.83183 (N 54°48′01″ W 66°49′55″)
Item Name
dress
Collection
Citation
“Hide Strap Dress with Painted Motifs and Beading,” Mapping Anishinaabe Regalia, accessed November 13, 2024, https://iris.siue.edu/anishinaaberegalia/items/show/66.