Skin, beaded, mounted with red and black wool stroud, fringe sewn on; strouds lined with black, white, amber, and blue glass seed beads; floral design of glass seed bead in center; fringe has mauve and straw dyed porcupine quills; right side fringe has only mauve from bottom to top; left side has mauve on only nine fringes at bottom, rest no quills.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Subarctic, North America
Culture or time period:
Northern Athapaskan tribes
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1868-1890
Taxon:
Erethizon dorsatum
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Bag used to hold or carry things in.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 45.5 centimeters
Loans:
S1965-1966 #16: California State University, East Bay/Clarence E. Smith (September 17, 1965–November 23, 1965)