The Frost Trade Bead Collection Gallery
Beaded Objects
Hair Wrap
Early twentieth century
123cm x 1.5cm
Gift of Polo High School
This beaded hair wrap was made in Minnesota by a member of the Ojibwa (Chippewa) tribe. It was collected by Charles K. Carpenter.
It is beaded in geometric motifs in pink, light blue, dark blue, medium blue, green and yellow loomed seed beads. There are purple and red wool yarn balled fringes at the ends of long tassels, each secured by a faceted iridescent blue bead.Collection of the Illinois State Museum
Photgraph by Jason Arnold, ISM
ISM Accession #: 1983-0114
