black cotton velveteen, silk, beads, cotton thread, metal snaps

machine stitching on the outside and under flap closure, appliqued beadwork to the same black velveteen on both sides. Beads are attached by overlay stitch, threaded on and couched with cotton thread.

Both back and front are decorated with stylized floral sprays. On front, design is a vertical stem with floral and leaf motifs off-shooting. Colours are opaque blue (2 shades), pink, yellow and green (3 shades) and transparent rose-with-white-centre, green, pink and clear glass beads, plus a few faceted brass beads.
The back has a floral design dominated by 8-petalled flowers, with 8 smaller flowers branching off from the top flower. Colours are opaque orange (2 shades), yellow and blue (2 shades) and translucent red, green (2 shades) and gold glass beads, plus a few faceted grey metallic beads.
Two sides and bottom of bag are edged with looped string of pale blue beads. The flap edge is covered with a 1.5cm strip of loom-woven beadwork. Small faceted glass beads are used on warp and weft of cotton thread. Colour is predominately blue (2 shades) with smaller amounts of red and green. A similar woven beadwork strip forms a carrying handle. Here, beads are predominately faceted metallic with repeated cross motif in red and white class beads.

Rectangular shape with rounded bottom corners. Made from two pieces of black velveteen with the back slightly longer than the front and forming a flap closure at top. Lined with tan coloured stiffening fabric, and with silk gros-grain at the top (matches with III-G-860 back).

Label inside pouch reads "Presented by Miss Mary Plummer of Toronto. March 1945". (CMC record)

Handwritten label inside pouch reads: "Presented by Miss Mary Plummer of Toronto, March 1945."
Items was originally stored at the Archive Museum, Daly Building. History Division received them in June 1967; in 1969 they were transfered to Ethnology