Mrs. Florence Beaulieu Dahl, White Earth Indian Reservation

Mrs. Florence Beaulieu Dahl, White Earth Indian Reservation

E97.1D p1 (Locator Number) 19627 (Negative Number)

Full front view of Mrs. Florence Beaulieu Dahl posing outside among some trees. She is wearing strap dress ensemble that consists of a woolen dress with white selvedge at the hem, leggings, moccasins, sleeves and long bead necklaces. The front panel (breast plate) with concentric triangles is attached to a pair of separate sleeves with two rows of cord sewn around cuffs.

Robert George Beaulieu

1910

Anishinaabe

White Earth, MN

The "breat plate" attached to the sleeves is discussed by Cath Oberholtzer and Cory Willmott as a significant attribute that might bear relation to men's hunting charms. This is a rare example of a breast plate among the Minnesota Anishinaabe. These same sleeves with breast plate are also worn by Margaret Guinon (neg.# 57555 - see Relation).

Physical Support: Paper

Florence Beaulieu Dahl

Cory Willmott. 2021. Decolonizing the Museum to Reclaim and Revitalize the Anishinaabe Strap Dress. Winterthur Portfolio 55(2/3): 121-85.

Cath Oberholtzer, “Cree taapiskaakan: Community Ties,”in Papers of the Thirtieth Algonquian Conference, ed. David H. Pentland (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999), 216–18.

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