Object name: Pouch / Collection place: North America / Culture or time period: Alaskan cultures - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-4530, described as Rectangular, flat. White-tanned (bleached) deerskin with horizontal bands of sealskin, dyed leather and scraped gut. Clipped white reindeer hide around mouth. Embroidery and red yarn. Short braided sinew hanging line at mouth. Sinew thread, running stitch. Small loops of white reindeer hair sewn around sinew thread. Made with ocher, gut, sinew, yarn, alder dye (?); white reindeer hair embroidery, black gut; sewn in running stitch. Possibly some red alder dye.

Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-14240, described as Twined; braided edge with drawstring decorated with red, white and blue worsted.

Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-3022, described as For tobacco. Leather with 2 pockets, red stained skin edging and cotton cloth lining. Sinew braid with remnants of red and blue wool inserts attached at top. Old sticker indicates that specimin cost $.50.

Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-8654, described as Made of seal gut. Drawstring of yellow and magenta with red and yellow tassels. Pouch decorated with red, blue, orange and yellow yarn, and white feathers.

Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-3037, described as Flat, scraped gut panels (white) decorated with insets of brown and red-dyed gut, plaited sinew carrying cord (broken).

Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-36400, described as Made of gut. 3 pockets. Decorated with feathers, red and blue silk (?) threads and painted alternately red and blue along the margins.

Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-5805, described as Scraped stomach or intestines, tanned white. Made in 7 horizontal panels, largest one folded over for a seamless bottom. No decoration in side seams. Main decoration is horizontal fringing of seal hair, red yarn, white reindeer hair embroidery and red-painted depilated hide or gut, about 5 cm from bottom. Next, a wide black graphite-painted horizontal panel with white reindeer hair embroidery and loop-fringing, red and gray yarns and threads, and red-painted gut strips. White windpipe skin inset with black & red dyed gutskin and seal fur; trimmed with white quill and red wool yarn. Bag string: braided white cotton yarn into which pink, black tufts of cotton have been mixed, at end a white glass bead.