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Start Over Object class Bags (generic containers) Year collected [Missing] Function 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5796, described as Small circular bag of skin of water birds feet and white gut or leather vertical stripes, base and mouth; red flannel trim.
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5803, described as Light skin, with feather and colored string decorations. Gut fringed on 3 sides. Brown dyed gut (?) inserts, red wool trim attached with cross-stitch embroidery. Plaited sinew carrying cord.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5780, described as Circular; depilitated deerskin (?) bottom and top, vertical side panels of depilitated white (stomach ?) skin with narrow strips of black gut between seams; whipstitch and running stitch in sinew thread; dark gut line passed under each loop of sinew thread at side for decorative effect.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5806, described as Long gut bag with red and black dyed trim. Damaged.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5809, described as Partly skin of water birds feet; alternating vertical stripes of bird feet leather and white leather; gut top and bottom.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5797, described as Circular bag, top portion only. Vertical strips of white tanned stomach or gut sewn with red (alder) dyed insets along seams. Mouth of horizontal strips, same material. Sewn with sinew thread in running stitch.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5779, described as Fishskin bag (poor condition). Vertical fishskin (not salmon) side panel. Mouth of horizontal panels, same skin, upper edge everted, with fishskin hanging ties at one end. Bottom of single large piece salmon skin. Sewn throughout with cotton thread, whipstitch. Holes from dorasal fins mended from inside.
Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 5-11561, described as Zabira - barber's tool pouch, Nigeria, Hausa att. July 27, 1972. 5-11561, acc no. 2879, file code 1.5. Collector: T.D. Lanagan. Donor: W.H. Lawson. Materials, techniques: leather sewn into pouch, leather carrying cords; Context of use: to hold barber's tools Description: pouch for containing barber's tools; this type for master barbers (see previous card for apprentices); sewn from red and green leather, decorated with pyroengraved designs; 22 cm. wide;
Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-5814, described as 1 - piece pattern with high rounded flap and narrow vertical side seam inserts. Decorated with red and black dyed strips of gut, painted areas of hematite and red pigment. Sinew loops, bundles of whiskers and colored yarns. Edging of depil. sealskin. Appliqued black leather royal crown inside flap. According to Molly Lee (1986) the appliqued designs are derived from Russian examples. Made with bleached leather, tar (?) paint.
Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-5804, described as Small and flat with scraped gut panels. Decorative horizontal strips of rubbed gut, red - dye gut, birdskin, brown gut fringe and reindeer hair embroidery. Long braided sinew cord with yarn tassel. Scraped stomach or intestines tanned white. Body made in 3 horizontal panels: one folded over (to make seamless bottom) and one added on each side to increase depth of bag. Several kinds of decoration. Brown gut fringe sews inot side seams. Decorative hand at mouth of bag (repeated on side where panels are joined) consisting of dark band of graphite-rubbed gut (or depil. skin), 2 narrow red-dyed strips, w/ white reindeer hair embroidery, and strip of birdskin (duck or cormorant) with dark feather side out. Red bands show occasional decorative loops of sinew and reindeer hair. Long double braided sinew cord attached at one corner, w/ red and grey yarn tassel at end. Sewn with fine sinew thread using running stitch throughout.

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