Rectangular, flat; twined; designs in colored wool yarn of 5 eight-pointed stars on one side and ten arrows on the other side; buckskin thongs at top. Indian hemp cordage warp and weft, false embroidery in corn husk and colored wool yarn.
Donor:
Randall Museum
Collection place:
Columbia Plateau, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Columbia Plateau
Culture or time period:
Nez Perce
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1976
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Context of use:
Made for sale. Larger ones were formerly used for gathering camass bulbs and for storing dried foodstuffs. So-called "corn husk bag.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 15 centimeters and length 19 centimeters
Comment:
Context of use: "(Designs of recent derivation from beadwork.) Made by women.
Loans:
S2008-2009 #9a: SFO Museum (February 11, 2009–January 11, 2010)