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bag, twined
bag, twined
bag, twined
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Nation of Maker:
Anishinaabe
Place of Origin:
Red Lake Nation, Miskwaagamiiwi-Zaagaiganing
Date Made or Date Range:
1885
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Materials
Cotton warp (almost completely hidden) and commercial wool yarn weft.
Techniques or Format
Warp is two S twist, Z plied brown vegetable fiber; weft is of various colors and of two strand twining with floats and full twist for patterning. Finish: bottom end seamed, top end adjacent warps replied/ grouped/twisted, buttonhole stitch. Applied decoration: leather tie. Natural colour twine wrapping around the top binding.
Motifs and Patterns
Six bands of geometric designs in tan, black and dark red.
Additional Context
Weft creates a circle pattern from brown, black, red, beige. Circle pattern may be snake skin. May be as early as the 1870s-80s. Sudbued colour choices. Horizontal orientation due to weft-face technique.
Dimensions:
11.5 × 10.625 × 0 in
Condition:
loss of wool
Provenance
Current Location:
Detroit Institute of Arts, MI, USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number:
81.12
Date of Acquisition by the Institution:
1981
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From:
Richard A. Pohrt
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context:
1958
Collection Narratives and Histories
Pohrt purchased bag from E. Hollis Hopkins, Baltimore, MD 1958
About This GRASAC Record
GKS Reference Number:
26879
Approximate Place of Origin