Bead Belt Or Sash
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Feb 1882
label: Collection Date
content: 1837
name: label: Collector
content: Aaron P. Hart
label: Donor Name
content: A W. Hart
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Caughnawaga Indians. Woven of wool, in four strips sewn together, red ground on all, design of arrowheads - two center ones in khaki color, the outer ones each side of a different color grey and dark blue, the long edges of the designs outlined in white beads. Presented to the donor [sic, see below] as part of a chief's costume, with which he was presented when installed with that office in return for services as a lawyer in a treason case 1837. Illus. Hndbk. of N. Amer. Indians, Vol. 15, Northeast, Fig. 13, pg. 308." Handbook caption identifies as "Mohawk finger-woven belt (ceinture aux fleches) from Caughnawaga. Wool, red ground, center arrows khaki, outer arrows gray and dark blue, outlined with white seed beads. Width about 19 cm."
label: Notes
content: Provenience note: per letter from donor in accession file, items in accession 11564 were presented to donor's brother Aaron Philip Hart, a lawyer, in 1837, not to the donor. The collection passed to the donor after his brother Aaron Hart's death in 1843.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Jan 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Montreal, Quebec, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), Mohawk (Kanienʼkehá꞉ka)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 011564
label: USNM Number
content: E72703-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sash