wool; cotton; brown, blue, red, orange, beige

Twined bag; finger woven; warp ends twisted at upper edge and then bound to give firm edge. Bag sewn closed across lower edge. Warp is cotton cord, weft is in knitting wools.

Coloured wools on cotton ground, patterned in three bands the same on both faces. Above and below, voided eight pointed stars in red and blue. In centre, lines forming repeating hexagons enclosing a lozenge, and with pairs of triangles between in dark brown and buff.

Geometric designs on panel bags represented cosmological motifs; the motifs in this style of bag are innovative.

Used as a storage bag for all kinds of things. Innovation in technqiue from panel bags, responding to the available materials.

Louis DeBassige said that sheep were in the Manitoulin Is area, and this could be similar to works made by the Odawa. The Odawa did the carding, spinning, etc. He dated it to turn of the 20C. He referred to stand up looms. Louis described a family member who produced decorative works for wall hangings, and the possibility to get in business with a German family, and the possiblity of angora goats, and angora knit wear, with Anishnaabe motifs. However it didn't work out (1980s). Farming was very important to the Odawa, who were a self-sufficient farming community, as the Mennonite are today. Role of hereditary chief: part of the process to redistribute resources.

Exchange from the American Museum of Natural History in return for Tsimshian fish-trap sent in May 1925. List of specimens sent in Exchange no. 13 "III-G-391 (50.5689) Woven woolen bag, beach Lake, Minnesota, Collected by W. Jones, Ojibway."

Burnham, H. Notes on Textiles in the National Museum Collection (unpublished)