Bag miniature
- Museum number:
- 1-255435
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010255435
- Accession number:
- Acc.3853
- Description:
- Square with fringed flap and handle. Glass seed beads woven on cotton thread; red, blue, black and clear beads. Handle unsewn from one side, thread broken at top of bag.
- Donor:
- Edward Briles
- Collection place:
- Alturas, Modoc County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Modoc; Alturas
- Culture or time period:
- Northeastern California tribes and Northeastern California tribes
- Collector:
- Rosa Gibbons Briles
- Collection date:
- 1900-1920
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Bags (generic containers)
- Function:
- 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
- Accession date:
- August 31, 1983
- Context of use:
- Made for tourist trade.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- width 6 centimeters and length 7 centimeters
- Comment:
- References: "Orchard, William C. "Beads and Beadwork of the American Indian", Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York, 1929, Vol. II, pp. 92-95.
- Legacy documentation:
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