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Introduction

Drawstring bag of painted hide, with a braided quill strap, tassels of dyed hair and tin cones, and a netted quillwork panel featuring two thunderbirds. Anishinaabe.

Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe
Nation of Origin

Based on style, materials, and presence of Thunderbird imagery.

Date Made or Date Range: Early 18 C to Late 18 C
Materials

Tanned hide, porcupine quills, dyed hair, tin.

Motifs and Patterns

Imagery of two Thunderbirds

Condition: Good. Many cones are missing.
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Based on style and materials, Autumn Epple guesses this bag dates between 1700 and 1780.

Current Location: Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Paris, France
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 71.1934.33.20 D
Collection Narratives and Histories

Déposant: Bibliothèque municipale de Versailles; Précédente collection: Musée de l'Homme (Amérique), inventaire 34.33.20.

Exhibition History

Premières Nations, Collections Royales, at the Musée du quai Branly, February 13 - May 13, 2007; Archéologie du Pérou et Folklore du Mexique (noted in MdqB file -- exhibition?).

Publication History

Christian Feest, Premières Nations, Collections Royales: Les Indiens des forêts et des prairies d'Amérique du Nord (Paris: musée du quai Branly, 2007).

GKS Reference Number: 25573
How to Cite this Item

Unknown artist, bag. Currently in the Musée du quai Branly, 71.1934.33.20 D. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip; GRASAC item id 25573.

Approximate Place of Origin

46.8139, -71.208

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