Bandoleer bag (shoulder pouch); fully beaded face except for panel below shoulder strap; cotton cloth lining is blue with floral design on lower half; broad band or baldric has white ground with multicolor floral beadwork designs; pouch has white ground with multicolor floral design; floral design beadwork on blue velvet in panel above pouch; base of pouch trimmed with large beads and wool yarn. Glass trade beads.
Donor:
Mary Jean Aerni
Collection place:
Leech Lake, Cass County, Minnesota
Verbatim coll. place:
Minnesota; Cass; Leech Lake
Culture or time period:
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe)
Collector:
Henry Beaudoux
Collection date:
ca. 1919
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
3.1 Status Objects and Insignia of Office
Accession date:
1971
Context of use:
Worn by well-to-do Indians on ceremonial occasions; resembles the pocket or bullet pouch worn by the British soldier about the middle of the 18th century; adopted by Ojibwa and other Woodland tribes.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 121 centimeters
Loans:
S1979-1980 #58: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/William S. Simmons (April 7, 1980–June 30, 1980)