Made of unsmoked deer hide, loon skin (possibly two loons), woven red woolen tape (called gartering in records of fur trade goods). Traces of porcupine quill wrappings are around the fringe, and traces of ochre are on the area where the hide joins with the loon skin.

Wrapped quill work in a way that leaves the thong bare at intervals. The gartering is fed through two slits on front and back.

The wrapped quill work that leaves the thong bare at intervals, and the use of red ochre, are traits of items made in the Subarctic.

The material is known to be gartering because of the width, and that the twill weaving goes in opposite directions, a technique used to make the material strong.

Unknown Dené artist, pouch. Currently in the British Museum, Am1970,09.3. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 26841.

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).