Bead fringe

Name (French):
Name (Innu):	shitshikuepishun / pashkuepishun
Date Collected:	unknown
Institutions:	The Rooms, Provincial Museum Division
Catalog Number:	III-B-28
Place Made:	unknown
Maker:	displayed as example of Naskapi personal ornaments with a card stating "collector R. White"
Collector:	Richard White

Description:

Band of white, blue and brass trade beads woven between 8 rawhide threads (red) in horizontal rows, sewn with white thread to cotton backing (white with blue horizontal stripes) which overlaps to in front of band (approximately 0.5″ on each side). Top trimmed with string of white and brass beads. Below band, same coloured beads strung on lengths of thread knotted to band forming fringe of 47 strands, each strand approximately 4.5″ long, ending in either a circle of blue and white, or purple and white beads.