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Indian sash 
a belt or waistband, often of worsted and of bright design, as the L'Assomption sash, characteristic of French Canada and long identified with the voyageurs and Métis.
See also: L'Assomption sash sash
- 1849 He was well got up as a woodsman for appearance at the settlements, wearing a glazed hat, red shirt, grey clothing, embroidered Indian sash, silver hilted knife in his belt, and pipe in his button-hole.
- 1893 [The coat] is good for at least nine years of hard service yet, and nothing would give its owner greater joy than to have the pleasure of again fastening it around him with an Indian sash. . . .
- 1849 He was well got up as a woodsman for appearance at the settlements, wearing a glazed hat, red shirt, grey clothing, embroidered Indian sash, silver hilted knife in his belt, and pipe in his button-hole.