Tassel Item Number: 1922.978 from the MAA: University of Cambridge
Description
A bundle of tassels, or fringe from a garment that has been cut off and tied together. The tassels are made from lengths of skin wrapped in porcupine quill and ending with copper cones and very coarse hair. The catalogue card states this is a bunch of Indian bells which probably resulted from the fact the tassels are partly made from small copper cones which jingle when shaken (G.Crowther).; Good.The cones are made of iron not copper
Context
This is most likely to have been collected on the Northwest Coast but traded from or by the Athabascan groups such as the Dene or Dena'ina (Tanaina)
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada ?
- Received from Ashton Lever, Leverian Museum, James Parkinson, John Rowe, Arthur Howe Holdsworth, Widdicombe House Collection and Louis C.G Clarke during 1922
What
Who
- Culture
- Iroquois ?
- Received from
- Ashton Lever, Leverian Museum, James Parkinson, John Rowe, Arthur Howe Holdsworth, Widdicombe House Collection and Louis C.G Clarke
Where
- Holding Institution
- MAA: University of Cambridge
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada ?
When
- Acquisition Date
- during 1922
Other
- Keyword
- Clothing; ?Music; Personal Adornment