Bag

Museum number:
2-59153
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020059153
Accession number:
Acc.3239
Description:
Pipe bag: buckskin; blue, red, green on white glass "seed" beads; metal tinklers with yellow horsehair; red, white, purple strips of porcupine quillwork trim at bottom with thick buckskin fringes attached.
Donor:
Machinery Credit Corporation
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Plains and Prairie tribes
Collector:
Ralph K. Davies
Collection date:
Before 1971
Taxon:
Erethizon dorsatum
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 76.5 centimeters and width 18 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-59153, described as Pipe bag: buckskin; blue, red, green on white glass "seed" beads; metal tinklers with yellow horsehair; red, white, purple strips of porcupine quillwork trim at bottom with thick buckskin fringes attached.

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