Margaret Guinon, White Earth, Minnesota

Margaret Guinon, White Earth, Minnesota

Margaret Guinon, office clerk at United States Agency, White Earth, dressed for celebration. (Supplied title)

E97.1G r16 (Locator Number) AV1989.138.34 (Accession Number) 57555 (Negative Number)

Upper torso portrait of Margaret Guinon. She wears a strap dress ensemble consisting of a dress with a floral beadwork bib and sleeves with wool tape trim, beaded cuffs and a cross-strip with "breast plate" descending from it.

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 Florence Beaulieu Dahl (Neg. # 19627 - see Relation).

Physical Support: paper

Margaret Guinon

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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