Leather with leather handle, flap at top folds over and buttons to a metal button sewn on with black cotton thread, 2 bands of dark red and blue glass seed beads across front and around edge, edge broken and some beads missing, trimmed at base with metal cones attached to leather strips.
Donor:
Allen Maret
Collection place:
Globe, Gila County, Arizona
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona; Gila; Globe
Culture or time period:
Apache
Collector:
Allen Maret, Miss En/usel/biel/bid, and Sister of Miss En/usel/biel/bid
Collection date:
November 17, 1959
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Context of use:
Note found inside bag states that specimen is a "charm bag.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 6.7 centimeters and length 11.5 centimeters
Comment:
Note found inside bag: "Apache charm bag from Miss" En/usel/biel/bid (name is very hard to read) "11/17/59 Given to her sister at Globe, Ariz. by an old Apache" (the letters Medici written after this have been crossed out) "who said it had been his father''s. Miss E. has had it 50 years & her sister who owned a copper mine near Globe had it long before that. It contained "something" Miss E. has forgotten what, when she received it." On back of note: "don''t know where the ring came from.