Pouches

Museum number:
2-62035a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210262035a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.3450
Description:
Leather. For holding colored paint materials. Red and yellow pigments are inside. Pouches are tied together with red cloth wrapping. NB: One pouch is yellow, and the other is dark brown -- this may be related to pigments inside.
Donor:
Edith Hamlin Dixon
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Blackfoot of Canada and Blackfoot of US
Collector:
Maynard Dixon
Collection date:
Before 1946
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pouches
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Context of use:
Used to hold paints.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 13 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pouches, accession number 2-62035a,b, described as Leather. For holding colored paint materials. Red and yellow pigments are inside. Pouches are tied together with red cloth wrapping. NB: One pouch is yellow, and the other is dark brown -- this may be related to pigments inside.

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