A pair of garters that are composed of seed beads and woven with worsted wool. The design consists of a zig-zagging blue and black line and floats on a white ground. Flanking the line are a series of floating red and green blocks.

Garters were particularly popular in the Eastern Plains and Great Lakes, worn below the knee to help secure leggings. The object type is among the oldest material culture forms, with many stylistic variations. The subject examples represents an earlier generation, where the serpentine design of the lane might be an abstracted reference to the Underwater Panther - the central Great Lakes deity of the cosmological Underworld.

Ex Noakes Collection

Approximately 24” long (overall); 11” long and 2” wide (beaded panel)

#51192