Front is made from a piece of blue wool blanket/coarse blue stroud; back is from a rectangle of black velvet which has been filled-out around the edges to the semi-ovate shape by black cotton sateen (1835-1920s). Back panel attached to gros-grain backing (large weft).

Curved edge and top front of edge are bound with blue silk ribbon and velvet at top; bag is lined with black silk which also forms edge-binding of flap.
Front motif: Round glass beads are used, attached by overlay stitch. Beads are threaded on, and couched with, cotton thread. Colours are opaque pink, blue, and green, and translucent gold, chartreuse, red and milky white.
Back motif: Same beading technique is used; colours are opaque pink, yellow, blue (2 shades) and green (2 shades) and translucent rose-with-white-centre, red, clear and milky white. A few faceted silver-metallic beads are also used. Velvet is outlined with short tubular glass beads.
Carrying handle: Beads are small and faceted, of transparent glass, predominately in shades of blue, orange and red. Warp and weft of beadwork are with cotton thread.
Pouch closure is with three pairs of metal snaps.

Front: Beadwork on stroud; Back: Beadwork is on velvet panel – they appear to be made by different people in different style. Both back and front beaded areas apparently had prior usage on another object: this would explain why the beaded design on the bag front is upside down and why the black velvet wasn’t cut large enough to form whole of back. Hypothesis: if Indian agent Plummer at Manitouwabing is related to Miss Plummer of 1945, it is possible she made this bag from panels cut from other items. Sateen and beadwork on strap indicate 1920's (first quarter of 20th c. ); beadwork could be mid-19th c. RP: women often bought panels that are shaped in a typical shape of Onkwehonwe beadwork and made into bags.
Carrying handle consists of a 1.5 cm wide length of woven beadwork.

The front is beaded with a stylized floral composition in which the central motif is a 6-petaled flower with 4 leaves, from which off-shoot 3 stems, each stem branching into 3 smaller flowers. The back is also decorated with a styled floral composition: a central flower motif, with off-shoots of 11 smaller flowers.
Carrying handle: Design is series of right-angled triangles.

1900-1935; characteristic of what women would wear in 1930s; popular among Anishinabe and European women; AC: 1863 - Indian agent Plummer was stationed at Manitoulin.

Item was presented to Archives museum in 1945 by "Miss Plummer of Toronto" (CMC collection record).

"Presented by Miss Plummer of Toronto, 1945" (Handwritten label inside pouch).

Item originally stored at the Archives Museum, Daly Building. History Division received them June 1967; in 1969 they were transferred to Ethnology.