Garter; Indigenous Peoples, North America

Leather garter decorated with quillwork wrapped around birch bark with beadwork at edges. At one end panel of rolled quillwork. 21 brass or copper cones attached containing hair. One of a pair, possibly associated with shamanic ritual. Quillwork is a form of textile embellishment traditionally practiced by Indigenous peoples of North America utilising the quills of porcupines, and occasionally bird feathers.