Fringe

Name (French):	frange
Name (Innu):
Date Collected:	unknown
Institutions:	The Rooms, Provincial Museum Division
Catalog Number:	III-B-39
Place Made:	unknown
Maker:	displayed with card stating "caribou skin objects, made and painted by Nascapi Indians"
Collector:	unknown

Description:

Caribou skin fringe made by cutting single piece of material into 36 strands, leaving a 2.5 band at top, painted with red, blue and brown lines. Two strands on each end and tips of all other strands painted red. Narrow skin thong (approximately 15 long) was sewn with gut to the back at the upper corners.

References:

MacKenzie Shoebox dictionary 2003.

Innu Narrative:

Note verb – niueshueu, she/he cuts a fringe, an irregular edge on it (anim); and niuetshishueu, she/he cuts a fringe on it (anim, sheet-like). MacKenzie Shoebox dictionary.