Made of finger woven red and black yarn, with parts of the red yarn faded to a light brown. Decorated with white pony beads, natural and orange dyed porcupine quills and metal cones filled with with red dyed deer hair. Lined with coarse cotton woven cloth in a blue checkered design that AC called "grandpa's pants."

Two finger woven rectangular panels are attached at the sides. Beadwork designs are woven into the panels. The edges of both the strap and panels have been left loose, forming a fringe at both the strap ends and the bag's bottom edge. On both sides of the strap's fringe, porcupine quills are wrapped around the strands to form form long cord-like strings which terminate in metal cones out of which hangs red dyed deer hair. There are three such strings on one side (one appears to be missing) and eight on the other. The strap is unattached at the top. It may be broken, or it could have been left unattached to allow for adjustment.

One side of the bag is decorated with beaded parallel zigzag lines, and the other has opposed paired zigzags which form diamonds. This same sort of opposed zig zag pattern is onto the strap.

This type of bag typically has different designs on each side.

This bag is similiar to one held at the Pitt Rivers Museum (1884.69.15) which Odawa elder Eddie King identified as a pipe bag.

The GRASAC team wondered if the bag could have been lined and used by the item's collector.

Made between the mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth century.

Part of the Christy Collection, in 1893 this bag was donated to the British Museum by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks. The British Museum object catalogue says it was collected by both Pickering and Captain Harding.

JCH King, "Thunderbird and Lightning" (1982) pg. 87.

Unknown artist, bag, shoulder. Currently in the British Museum, Am,+.6993. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 25514.

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), Alan Corbiere (AC), Henrietta Lidchi (HL), Stacey Loyer (SL), Janis Monture (JM), Bruce Morito (BM), Ruth Phillips (RP), Anne De Stecher (AS), Cory Willmott (CW).