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Start Over Object name Bag Culture or time period Northern Athapaskan tribes Function 1.5 Household
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-6516, described as Skin bag; round pouch construction. Bottom and mouth of scraped depilitated deerskin, sides of vertical panels of fishskin and white-tanned depilitated deerskin. Decoration consists of small elongate lozenges of red and bleached leather with fur trim and band of bleached leather around neck of bag. Two leather straps sewn on at mouth. Sinew thread used throughout. Overcast and running stitches. Made with salmon skins from belly and back, deerskin, gut, sinew thread, and fur.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-13417, described as Of fishskin. Red and black flannel trimming. Floral pattern. Motheaten.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-13418, described as Or wall pocket of bears' claw trimmed with red flannel. Floral design. Motheaten.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-6517, described as Fishskin bag. Oval, vertical side panels with scale side out. Bottom with scale side in. Mouth with horizontal panels, without straps or means of closure. Decorated with lozenge and zig-zag strips of red and white leather, and small geometric shapes sewn on with red thread. Made with salmon skin, twisted sinew thread, red textile thread, scraped gut, red and white tanned leather, white caribou hair. Running and overshot stiches used.

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