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Twined bag made in one piece of red and black wools and cotton string. Motifs consist of hourglasses on one side and diamond pattern in central pattern on the other side.

Nation of Maker: Other
Nation of Origin

Winnebago (CMC record)

Date Made or Date Range: Mid to Late 19th c.
Materials

Commercial cotton string; red woolen yarn; black animal hair or wool yarn; purple calico tie at top

Techniques or Format

finger woven; no side seams, twined all the way around. Warp threads hung over a length of wood, hanging down either side. Top side is loosely woven so you can put a drawstring in. Twined on split pairs, the desired colour being kept to the face. Warp - Striped alternately cotton and wool. Weft - cotton string. In the edging panel, the colour not wanted has not been worked, but cut off.

Motifs and Patterns

Geometric designs on both sides; One side has alternating hourglass motifs and lozenges in black between striped panels obliquely barred in red and black. On the other, a panel of black lozenges, between similar barred and striped panels.

Dimensions: 47 × 56 × 0 mm
Current Location: Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa, Canada
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: III-O-2
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1925
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: American Museum of Natural History, New York; Exchange No. 13
Exhibition History

Bojou Neejee, April 1976 - August 1979.

Comment on Source of Exhibition & Publication Data

CMC catalogue record

GKS Reference Number: 27215
Approximate Place of Origin

43.6, -71.9

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