Bag

Museum number:
2-66130
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3445
Description:
Sewn beadwork on cotton cloth; fully beaded multicolor floral on opaque white background using glass seed beads, loops or blue glass tube beads and silk ribbon along one edge. One side of bag is missing and shoulder strap is attached only at one corner, some beads missing.
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:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Context of use:
Shoulder bag.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
46.5 centimeters, width 14 centimeters, width 36.5 centimeters, and length 127 centimeters
Comment:
References: "The Art of the Great Lakes Indians", Flint Institute of the Arts, 1973, p. 59. Lyford, Carrie A, "Ojibwa Crafts", U. S. Dept. of Interior, 1943, pp. 125-128.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bag, accession number 2-66130, described as Sewn beadwork on cotton cloth; fully beaded multicolor floral on opaque white background using glass seed beads, loops or blue glass tube beads and silk ribbon along one edge. One side of bag is missing and shoulder strap is attached only at one corner, some beads missing.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bag, accession number 2-66130, described as Sewn beadwork on cotton cloth; fully beaded multicolor floral on opaque white background using glass seed beads, loops or blue glass tube beads and silk ribbon along one edge. One side of bag is missing and shoulder strap is attached only at one corner, some beads missing.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-66130, described as Sewn beadwork on cotton cloth; fully beaded multicolor floral on opaque white background using glass seed beads, loops or blue glass tube beads and silk ribbon along one edge. One side of bag is missing and shoulder strap is attached only at one corner, some beads missing.

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