Iroquois Burden Straps and Small Bag in the Sloan Collection, British Museum

Description

Media Type: Image
Item Type: Photographs
Description: A cord made of hemp and porcupine quills dyed from the Iroquois by the Indian kings - given me by Mr [Capt.] Middleton - for tying their prisoners. (Number 573). The same of a coarser sort without the quills (Number 574). An Indian purse made by the Huron Savages of Canada with the crin or hair of the Orignac which they dye with roots. (Number 203). In Bern Switzerland Historical Museum ?
Date of Original: c. 1906
Date Of Event: 1742
Dimensions: Width: 8 in
Height: 10 in
Image Dimensions: Image Width: 1079in
Image Height: 470in
Subject(s): Iroquois Confederacy
Six Nations of the Grand River (Reserve-Ohsweken, Ont.)
Local identifier: SNPL000607v00i
Language of Item: English
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