A PAIR OF HURON CARIBOU HOOF ORNAMENTS, each with two applied black stroud pockets embroidered in coloured moosehair with floral designs, the red silk borders with tin cone and dyed-hair tassels, similarly decorated tassels suspended from beads about the border, cloth backing with serrated red stroud border, each with further small pocket to the reverse, the suspension loops bound with orange and white porcupine quills, circa 1800 | Christie's

Lot 45

THE PROPERTY OF A NOBLEMAN

A PAIR OF HURON CARIBOU HOOF ORNAMENTS, each with two applied black stroud pockets embroidered in coloured moosehair with floral designs, the red silk borders with tin cone and dyed-hair tassels, similarly decorated tassels suspended from beads about the border, cloth backing with serrated red stroud border, each with further small pocket to the reverse, the suspension loops bound with orange and white porcupine quills, circa 1800

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A PAIR OF HURON CARIBOU HOOF ORNAMENTS, each with two applied black stroud pockets embroidered in coloured moosehair with floral designs, the red silk borders with tin cone and dyed-hair tassels, similarly decorated tassels suspended from beads about the border, cloth backing with serrated red stroud border, each with further small pocket to the reverse, the suspension loops bound with orange and white porcupine quills, circa 1800
45cm. long (2)

Lot Essay

A similar ornament in the Speyer collection was collected in 1843 (see Brasser, 1976, p. 159, fig. 165) and two were collected prior to 1816 by General Sir Gordon Drummond, G.C.B (1772-1854) (sold Christie's, London, 13 June 1978, lot 203)

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