Bag

Museum number:
2-5229
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020005229
Alternate number:
38B (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.131 and Acc.52
Description:
Bladder bag; holding quills; beaded in multicolors on both ends.
Donor:
David Ives Bushnell Jr., G. B. Gordon, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and W. C. Farabee
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Teton Dakota
Collector:
Francis La Flesche
Collection date:
1901-1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1904 and September 8, 1902
Context of use:
Such bladder bags used by Dakota and other Siouan groups to hold materials for quilling.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 25.5 centimeters
Comment:
Exhibited: "UCLMA Plains Indians, 1971". Such bladder bags used by Dakota and other Siouan groups to hold materials for quilling.
Loans:
S1972-1973 #26: California State University, East Bay/JoAllyn Archambault (October 31, 1972–November 7, 1972)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bag, accession number 2-5229, described as Bladder bag; holding quills; beaded in multicolors on both ends.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bag, accession number 2-5229, described as Bladder bag; holding quills; beaded in multicolors on both ends.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5229, described as Bladder bag; holding quills; beaded in multicolors on both ends.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5229, described as Bladder bag; holding quills; beaded in multicolors on both ends.

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