Lot 180
Unidentified Oceti Sakowin (Sioux), Ojibwa (Anishinaabe), and other Artists
Lot 180 Details
Unidentified Oceti Sakowin (Sioux), Ojibwa (Anishinaabe), and other Artists
THREE BEADED BELTS, AND ONE PAIR OF BEADED CUFFS, CA. 1900
glass beads, hide, wool fringe, cotton thread
accompanied by C. Frank Turner's hand written collector's notes, one reading "Sioux dance belt men's circa 1900 2 pc. Belt may have been 2 legging strips. Has been repaired at 2 intervals. Done on buffalo hide. Fringe and ribbon work added about 1910. Original piece could date 1870."; another reading "floral beaded woman's belt. Pine Ridge, Dakotas, 1870-80. Probably originally Ojibway Devil's Lakes 1880."
largest 38.5 x 6.5 in — 97.8 x 16.5 cm
Estimate $200-$300
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Provenance:
Collection of C. Frank Turner, Toronto, ON
By descent to the present Private Collection, Toronto, ON
Note:
Cyril Francis (C. Frank) Turner was an individual of many talents, and a remarkably varied life. A wartime commando, and flying officer, peacetime militiaman, author, editor, and amateur historian (who could trace his ancestry to 14th century Mawddwy Bandits in Wales), he is perhaps most remembered for authoring the popular 1973 book Across the Medicine Line: The Epic Confrontation Between Sitting Bull and the North-West Mounted Police.
An adventurer with a hands-on approach to the study of history, Turner assembled a collection of historical First Nations objects, and traveled to many of the far flung, and at times dangerous locations covered in his book, interviewing first-hand, and keeping correspondence with descendants of participants in the events. Speaking in 1973 of the urgency of preserving stories, Turner expressed, “The land is still there. So are the descendants, Indians and Whites. It is the heritage that is fading away.”
Waddington’s is pleased to present the research archives, and First Nations collection of Cyril Francis Turner.