DCHP-3

Assomption belt

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a colorful sash, 4 to 6 inches wide and 8 to 10 feet long, so called because the best such sashes were made in L'Assomption, Quebec, and widely distributed as trade goods by the fur companies, especially in the design known as the arrow sash. See L'Assomption sash and picture.

Quotations

1908
The old Indian [wore] a shirt and corduroy vest to match, a faded kerchief tied around his head, an Assomption sash, and a begrimed body inside it all. . . .
1954
The men wore their hair in what was known as the "Dutch cut" . . . but all were girded with the gaudy "assomption belt" fashioned sash-like in two folds around the waist.