If ever the were a tie hanger made for me, this would most definitely be it. Amid a bunch of tender feeling things this week, I find this perhaps the most touching of all, and as I've said before, there is nothing I love more than an example of heartfelt, earnest hard-trying. Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), in the manner of beadwork made for the tourist trade around Niagara Falls, but an especially naive example, perhaps made as a gift from a young maker to a beloved father. (The manner of the lettering, and the misspelling too, remind me of some very hard-trying homemade gifts of my own.) The creative spelling of hanger (HAMCHR) combined with the need to explain the use of the object itself, combined with its relative ineffectualness for hanging ties, combined with the fact that it has endured, make it a winner of an object in my book.
12" x 7 7/8" including beaded fringe. Some small scatted holes in the green silk as documented, showing thin cardboard underneath. Stable and not fragile. I would probably sew a couple of loops of thread to the reverse side near the corners and hang it on the wall that way.
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