Bag, Shoulder
Bag, Shoulder
Bag, Shoulder
This relative, a shoulder bag, is composed of dark brown deer hide, quillwork, deer hair, and moose hair. The design is composed of linear motifs in moose hair and black quillwork, with a single finger-woven strap and opening at the top of the bag. The other end of the bag has a fringe composed of iron cones and red-dyed deer hair, a fringe that is replicated on one side of the bag, below the opening. The design of the strap includes three-ply yellow and faded blue wool yarn in a geometric arrow pattern. The origins and maker of this bag are not certain; however, it has probable connections to the Delaware area.
This relative currently resides at the National Museum of Ireland.
Unrecorded.
Note from Nikolaus Stolle: possibly Delaware, as suggested by bags collected by Return Jonathan Meigs in the Thaw collection at the Fennimore Art Museum.
Read More About This Relative
dark brown deerhide, maybe coloured with sumac, quillwork in faded red (now orange), blue, white, yellow, green and black; linear motifs in moosehair and black quillwork; rinned iron cones, red deer hair, finger woven strap in three ply yellow and faded blue wool yarn, red dyed deerhair, sinew and two ply hemp
The pouch is made of one piece of hide sewn on one side and the bottom; the opening is in the top edge.
Linear motifs.
Provenance
GRASAC researcher notes from the June 20, 2010 visit.
About This GRASAC Record
Maker, Name unrecorded. Shoulder Bag. GRASAC ID 1367. National Museum of Ireland Collection 1902.322.
This record was augmented by Dana Murray on June 20, 2024. It was informed by notes from the GRASAC trip to the National Museum of Ireland on July 20, 2010. Participants included Alan Corbiere, Bnehns Corbiere, Crystal Migwans, Nikolaus Stolle, Ruth Phillips, with funding provided by a SSHRC Aboriginal Research Grant.
43.6, -71.9
"Delaware" is identified on the map as a possible origin for the shoulder bag, but this reflects only one place where the relative may have lived. It is not a known place of origin; it is only one location where similar shoulder bags have been identified.