« This woman's costume is completed with an oval head band of purple wool felt edged with light purple silk. A strip of red cotton tape is sewn down the center of one side and there are silk ties, one red and one purple, at each end (fig. 24c). » Vanstone, James W. "The Speck Collection of Montagnais Material Culture from the Lower St. Lawrence Drainage, Quebec." Fieldiana. Anthropology. New Series, No. 5 (October 29, 1982), p.14, fig 24c (p.52).

Band of braided plant fibre with cowrie shells. The largest shells are stitched to the middle section, with smaller shells near the ends.

Band made of dyed camelid wool threads. Black weft camelid wool threads and orange-red, green-grey and red dyed camelid wool warp threads. Top of band is 1x1 (weft and warp), orange-red and has a semi-translucent effect, grey-green middle part is 1x1 and has two lower horizontal red bands, below there is an intersecting network of brown warp and weft camelid threads. Plain weave technique and "S" torsion; band is brown edged. Broken, worn and incomplete.

The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.

The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.

Gift in memory of Isaac M. Bates by his children and grandchildren.

Fragments of a woven band with snake and geometric designs. Dyed wool threads in green and red-brown. a) Piece of band with five double-headed snake motifs. Two squares of open tapestry technique (some sections of warp unwoven to give a semi-translucent effect). Snakes have diamond shaped eyes, dots in the interior of curved body and surrounded by triangles; one serpent is green, the rest are light brown or brown. b) Piece of band with three double-headed snakes with one square of open tapestry technique. Snakes have diamond-shaped eyes, dots in the interior of curved body, surrounded by triangles; snakes are light brown and brown. Incomplete.

Band of bent antler tied together at ends with hide tie. Engraved with repeating pattern of small circles, with a dot in the middle, and two lines underneath each circle. Four drilled holes replace four of the circles.

Band of bent antler, tied together at ends with hide strip. Engraved with repeating pattern of circles, with a dot in the middle, down the centre and straight and diagonal lines carved along the edges. Drilled holes top four of the pairs of lines on one side of the band. Two lines around the band separate the three patterns.

Large band of bent antler tied together at ends with two hide ties. Engraved with repeating pattern of circles, with a dot in the middle, and pairs of lines carved near both edges. Drilled holes top the pairs of lines on one side of the band. Two lines around the outside surface separate the three patterns.