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bag, chatelaine
bag, chatelaine
bag, chatelaine
Beaded chatelaine bag with floral motifs. Haudenosaunee, made between the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century.
This is a traditional Haudenosaunee-style bag.
Created with information from the British Museum accession record and observations made by the GRASAC research team.
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The base is dark brown velvet. There is red cotton edging around the body and red silken ribbon edging around the top opening. The strap is a medium brown cotton. The bag is decorated with sequins and beads in white, sky blue, dark blue, gold, jade green, dusty rose, transluscent white, transluscent gold, transluscent blue, and transluscent green. Its lining is a dark blue polished cotton. The beadwork has been done upon a paper pattern, and both the bag and beadwork have been sewn with cotton thread.
Two pieces of dark brown velvet sewn together and bound at the edge. The looped fringe of gold and blue beadwork has twists in it to make a chain-effect around the edging of body of bag. The flap is a separate piece sewn onto body. The handle is sewn to the outer side of the bag and covered by the red silken ribbon. There is a small pocket underneath the flap top edge, bound with red cotton tape.
Decorated with floral motifs with monochromatic shading. The flap is edged with a single row of beads and the bag's body is edged with a double parallel line. From the inner parallel line projects a row of short parrallel vertical lines in blue with last 2 beads in white. Sequins are interspersed in the motif area and each sequin has a single bead attached in the centre.
RP deated its manufacture somewhere between the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century.
Provenance
About This GRASAC Record
Unknown Haudenosaunee artist, bag, chatelaine. Currently in the British Museum, Am.2593. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 24754.
This record was created as part of a Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC) research trip to the Pitt Rivers Museum and British Museum, December 8-22 2007, funded by a grant from the International Opportunities fund of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
Researchers present: Heidi Bohaker (HB), John Borrows (JB), Lindsay Borrows (LB), Darlene Johnston (DJ), Stacey Loyer (SL), Janis Monture (JM), Bruce Morito (BM), Ruth Phillips (RP), Cory Willmott (CW).