L'Assomption Sash for Carrying Things That No Longer Exist #10

2025

Andrea Carlson

(American/Ojibwe, b. 1979)

Culture

America

Medium

gouache on paper

Measurements

Sheet: 76.2 x 57.1 cm (30 x 22 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Sundry Art - Miscellaneous Fund 2025.162

This artwork is known to be under copyright.

Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

Andrea Carlson works in Chicago and northern Minnesota today.

Description

This drawing belongs to an ongoing series carried out by Andrea Carlson since 2022. Each sheet presents abstract shapes featuring the arrow pattern and color palette of L’Assomption sashes, hand-braided wool bands used by Ojibwe tribe members to secure tools and other utilitarian objects to the body. The garments were later adopted by French fur traders, and especially by the Métis, a group that emerged at this time as the result of marriage between the Ojibwe and French. For Carlson, L’Assomption sashes symbolize the intersections between Indigenous and Western culture and serve as a means of reflecting on her own heritage.