Fringe

Description

Fringe for a woman's dress, of tanned caribou skin, cut into thongs wrapped in alternate pairs with red, blue and white porcupine quills to give a netted effect and strung with white beads: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Slavey, c. 1862

Museum reference

A.848.13

Collection

Americas

Object name

Fringe

Production information

Unknown
Northwest Territories, Canada, North America

Date

c. 1862

Style / Culture

Slavey
Athapaskan

Materials

Caribou skin, Porcupine quill

Physical description

Tanned caribou skin cut into thongs which are wrapped in alternate pairs with red, blue and white porcupine quills to give a netted effect, and strung with white beads

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

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

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

On display

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world cultures, living lands