Beaded cloth "Friendship bag": Multilayered cloth with multicolored floral design in glass "seed" beads. Bottom section square, edged with green ribbon, fringed with purple, blue and red wool yarn, backed with cloth. Two rectangular top strips edged with green ribbon, backed with cloth. Seam between 2 rectangles reddened on inside green ribbon. Rip in lining at upper right edge of bottom piece. Beads missing from lower left corner. 3500 written on lining bottom left corner. Ribbon stained.
Donor:
Christiane de Bord, Claude-Eric Lazard, Florence de Lavalette, and Sidney Lazard
Collection place:
Northern Great Lakes, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northern Great Lakes
Culture or time period:
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe)
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Context of use:
Friendship bag
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 50 centimeters, 69 centimeters, and length 49 centimeters
Comment:
References: See: xxv, & #227, p. 58 in "Art of the Great Lakes", Flint Institute of Arts, 1973.