Dark green and dark blue silk velvet with pink silk ribbon trim at upper edge, remnants of silk cloth lining over paper, curved around lower edge, all-over floral design using multicolored glass seed beads on both sides, loops of yellow glass seed beads around sides and lower edge, some beads missing from loops and in parts of floral design. Handsewn; cotton thread; lazy stitch.
Donor:
Mrs. Stanley Zuckerman and Stanley Zuckerman
Collection place:
Northeastern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northeast
Culture or time period:
Iroquois
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
January 4, 1988
Context of use:
Carrie A. Lyford states, "small, flat beaded bags made of commercial cloth and fashioned after prevailing style of side bag worn on the belt by White women of the period.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 14.5 centimeters and length 16.5 centimeters
Comment:
References: Lyford, Carrie A. "Iroquois Crafts", United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1945, pp. 30-32. Whiteford, Andrew Hunter "North American Indian Arts", Golden Press, New York, 1970, p. 94.