Bag

Museum number:
2-30116
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020030116
Accession number:
Acc.1118
Description:
Dark blue wool stroud cloth, edges bound with black cotton cloth, cotton cloth lining, black ribbon handle. On both sides a beaded floral design using multi-colored glass seed beads, white beads outline edges, fringe at bottom using large blue beads and black, faceted beads combined with red wool yarn tassels. Cloth badly deteriorated.
Donor:
A. Wallis Kierulff
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Northern Athapaskan tribes
Collector:
A. Wallis Kierulff and Harry Newton Kierulff
Collection date:
1890-1903
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
1953
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 35 centimeters and width 17.7 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-30116, described as Dark blue wool stroud cloth, edges bound with black cotton cloth, cotton cloth lining, black ribbon handle. On both sides a beaded floral design using multi-colored glass seed beads, white beads outline edges, fringe at bottom using large blue beads and black, faceted beads combined with red wool yarn tassels. Cloth badly deteriorated.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-30116, described as Dark blue wool stroud cloth, edges bound with black cotton cloth, cotton cloth lining, black ribbon handle. On both sides a beaded floral design using multi-colored glass seed beads, white beads outline edges, fringe at bottom using large blue beads and black, faceted beads combined with red wool yarn tassels. Cloth badly deteriorated.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-30116, described as Dark blue wool stroud cloth, edges bound with black cotton cloth, cotton cloth lining, black ribbon handle. On both sides a beaded floral design using multi-colored glass seed beads, white beads outline edges, fringe at bottom using large blue beads and black, faceted beads combined with red wool yarn tassels. Cloth badly deteriorated.

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