Pair of Beaded and Quilled Finger-woven Pictorial Garter Pendants
Pair of Beaded and Quilled Finger-woven Pictorial Garter Pendants
Place of OriginNorth America
Datemid 18th century
DimensionsA - 32 × 3 1/4 × 1/4 in. (81.3 x 8.3 x 0.6 cm)
B - 32 1/8 × 3 1/8 × 1/4 in. (81.6 x 7.9 x 0.6 cm)
B - 32 1/8 × 3 1/8 × 1/4 in. (81.6 x 7.9 x 0.6 cm)
Mediumporcupine quills, natural dyes, tin, deer fur
ClassificationTextiles and Fiber
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
2023.358A-B
On View
Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 18
DescriptionEach finger-woven red and blue wool panel is decorated with white glass pony beads in geometric bands, one end with quillwork pendants, in red, white and blue, and metal cones inserted with red-dyed animal fur, the opposite end, with a netted quilled section, in red, ivory and green, enclosing a thunderbird motif, and strung with similar suspensions.
Published ReferencesPhillips, Ruth B. and Dale Idiens, “‘A Casket of Savage Curiosities’: Eighteenth-century Objects from Northeastern North America in the Farquharson Collection,” Journal of the History of Collections, 1994, vol. 6, no. 1.
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