Bag
- Museum number:
- 2-20978
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020020978
- Accession number:
- Acc.982
- Description:
- Beaded. Made of tanned caribou hide with moose hide trim and fringe.
- Donor:
- Catherine McClellan
- Collection place:
- Carcross, Yukon Territory, Canada
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Canada; Yukon; Carcross
- Culture or time period:
- Tagish
- Maker or artist:
- Angela Sydney [Tagish]
- Collector:
- Catherine McClellan and Dorothy Lee Rainier
- Collection date:
- August 1949
- Taxon:
- Rangifer tarandus caribou
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Bags (generic containers)
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Production date:
- August 1949
- Accession date:
- 1949
- Context of use:
- Ammunition bag. Made by Mrs. Angela Sydney of Carcross to represent an "old style" bag although the bead work is of the modern type.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Comment:
- Remarks: See D. Jenness, p. 425, 6th ed. of "Indians of Canada" for ref. to Tagish.
- Legacy documentation:
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