Girdle

Item number Ne215 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

Purplish pink beads woven flat with diagonal and straight light blue rows; arranged in two motifs that alternate at evenly-spaced intervals along length. Warps at each end of length tied off with two short sections of cord each. These are wrapped tightly with sections of light blue then purplish pink beads. Tassled loops of strung beads in same colours attached to end of cord.

History Of Use

Beads said to be from Hudson's Bay Company. Beadwork was generally designed and stitched by women, and for their own family's use. This type of belt would be worn by a woman, tied around the waist. Glass trade beads were introduced by Europeans to North American Indigenous groups circa 1675, in the east.