Cloth, with strap, navy blue and red wool stroud; shoulder strap: red stroud with blue trim, backing is tan cloth; white glass seed beads trim whole strap; design of decomposing blue glass seed beads in oval shape alternating with circles of white and green glass seed beads on whole strap; bag is navy stroud with red trim, backing is brown cloth; white seed beads around whole of bag; top decorated with 3 weaving rows of red and white beads with blue beads in center around row of red beads; see card.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Subarctic, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Subarctic
Culture or time period:
Northern Athapaskan tribes
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1868-1890
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Shoulder bag probably used to carry small things in.