Saddlebag

Museum number:
2-18780
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020018780
Alternate number:
174 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Buckskin, with tin bells, some cloth.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Apache
Collector:
Capital Life Insurance Company list
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Saddlebags (containers)
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Context of use:
The Western Apache use instead (of parfleches) saddlebags decorated with cut designs and streamers. This art is no doubt of Spanish origin, taken over with the horse and saddle." (fide Goddard, Indians of the Southwest)
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 62 centimeters and width 24 centimeters
Loans:
S1964-1965 #111: Oakland Public Museum (June 1, 1965–June 7, 1965)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Saddlebag, accession number 2-18780, described as Buckskin, with tin bells, some cloth.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Saddlebag, accession number 2-18780, described as Buckskin, with tin bells, some cloth.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Saddlebag, accession number 2-18780, described as Buckskin, with tin bells, some cloth.

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