Belt

Description

Belt, comprising a band of loom-woven red and white porcupine quills mounted on tanned caribou skin, stitched to dress at waist centre-back and tying at front with thongs, part of a woman's summer outfit: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Great Slave Lake, Tłı̨chǫ, c. 1860

Museum reference

A.558.39 A

Collection

Americas

Object name

Belt

Production information

Unknown
Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, North America

Date

c. 1860

Style / Culture

Tłı̨chǫ
Athapaskan

Materials

Caribou skin, Porcupine quill, Thong

Physical description

Belt made of a band of loom-woven red and white porcupine quills mounted on tanned caribou skin, stitched to dress at waist centre-back, and tying at front with thongs.

Collection place(s)

Northwest Territories, Canada, North America

Associations

Hudson's Bay Company

Exhibitions

• Living Lands (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Dogrib: We live securely by the land (01 Oct 2006 - 14 Dec 2007)
  Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
  Carleton University Art Gallery

References

The Athabaskans: Strangers of the North. Ottawa: National Museum of Man, 1974. Exhibition catalogue from 'An international travelling exhibition from the collection of the National Museum of Man, Canada, and the Royal Scottish Museum'. cat no. 172

Idiens, Dale, A catalogue of Northern Athapaskan Indian artefacts in the collection of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum Information Series, Art and Archaeology 3, March 1979

Dè T’a Hoti Ts’eeda: ‘We Live Securely by the Land’; An Exhibition of Dene material selected from the collections from National Museums Scotland. Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada 2006

On display

national museum of scotland »
level 1 »
world cultures, living lands