Vegetable fibre, dyed moosehair or possibly fine quill, lining of traditionally tanned and smoked hide.

Woven construction with vegetable fibre. The motifs are made using twining technique.Dyed moosehair or possibly fine quill was twisted around the weft thread as it was woven around the warp threads. The border of the top of the pouch-basket is made by weaving several warp threads together and then twining them together to form the top edge.

Geometric patterns.

This pouch looks more utilitarian than the other twined pouches in the MQB collection.

The material in the Bibliotheque national de France was collected before c. 1792. Autumn Epple theorizes, based on materials and style, it dates from 1700 to 1780.

The ethnographic works from the Bibliothèque Nationale du France are located in the Musée du quai Branly in Paris. These ethnographic works were brought together in this collection at the time of the French Revolution, around 1792. Many of these works came from the Jardin du Roi, the collection of the French kings. In 1792, inventories were made of the possessions of aristocratic French families in Paris and the provinces and many objects were selected to be added to the Bibliothèque Nationale, which was the national collection of the new Republic. Ethnographic material from the Bibliothèque Nationale was located at the Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro, then the Musée de l’Homme, and is now in the Musée du quai Branly.

Unknown artist, pouch. Currently in the Musée du quai Branly, 71.1878.32.71. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip; GRASAC item id 1408.

The research for this record was carried out by Anne de Stecher for her thesis.

deStecher, Annette. Engaged Histories: Wendat Women’s Souvenir Artsof Cultural Preservation and Entrepreneurial Invention. PhD dissertation. Ottawa: Carleton University, 2013.

This record was created by Anne de Stecher during an RAship for Prof. Ruth Phillips.