Bag

Museum number:
2-66134
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3445
Description:
Round, cloth; one side has a fully beaded multicolor floral design on white background using glass seed beads sewn onto white cotton cloth; other side is black cotton cloth, edged with red silk ribbon which has deteriorated. A string of opaque white glass seed beads forms the handle.
Donor:
Betty Ann Gruberg
Collection place:
Northeastern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northeast
Culture or time period:
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe)
Collector:
George M. Firestone
Collection date:
1927-1933
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 10 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-66134, described as Round, cloth; one side has a fully beaded multicolor floral design on white background using glass seed beads sewn onto white cotton cloth; other side is black cotton cloth, edged with red silk ribbon which has deteriorated. A string of opaque white glass seed beads forms the handle.

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