Tabbed Bag

Tabbed Bag

Tabbed Bag

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Introduction

A black deerskin bag with two tabs on the lower portion with Thunderbird and underwater being images on one side and two arcs on the other. Collected by Jasper Grant, probably between 1805-1809 in the Detroit-Amherstberg area, attibutable to the Anishinaabe on the basis of the imagery.

Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe
Date Made or Date Range: 1800-1809
Materials

Tanned, black-dyed deerskin; porcupine quills, yellow, blue, red, white; silk grosgrain ribbon, blue, red; cotton thread; small cylindrical glass beads,small white, large blue; metal cones; red-dyed animal hair.

Techniques or Format

Quill work in simple line, zigzag band, one-quill edging stitches

Other Notes

This pouch and Pouch NMI 1902.325 represent a small group of late eighteenth-century oblong black pouches from the central Great Lakes region. all are closely related stylistically and most display finely embroidered images of Thunderbirds. The overall shape of the pouch was probably derived from the widely used pouches made of the whole skins of animals such as otters and muskrats. The images displayed on them are derived from dream representations of the cosmic manitos and their powers.

Dimensions: 0 × 15.3 × 46.5 cm
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Period of Grant's military service in Canada

Current Location: National Museum of Ireland
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 1902.326
Collection at Current Location: Jasper Grant Collection
Publication History

Phillips, Ruth. Patterns of Power. Kleinburg,On.:McMichael Canadian,1984.

GKS Reference Number: 27160
Record Creation Context

GRASAC Research trip to National Museum of Ireland July 22 2010. Participants, Alan Corbiere, Ruth Phillips, Crystal Migwans, Nicholas Stolle, assisted by Padraig Clancy and Emma Crosby

Approximate Place of Origin

43.3, -78.1