Brown velveteen; Canvas; sz. 11 seed beads (white background on strap; clear background on body; white linear design); tubular beads; wool yarn; wool tape.

The central panel and strap are loom-woven beadwork. Also a strip of loom-woven b/w surrounding whole panel of bag. Pouch is a real pouch. The bag is formed by folding a single piece of brown velveteen. Another piece of cotton velvet forms the back and top of pouch. The entire bag is bound with wool tape of a kaki-green color (no evidence of fading). . Tassels of tubular beads ternimating in hand-made yarn tassels.

Unusual pictorial image of two deer in landscape in central panel (probably from a stencil). This is surrounded by 6 petal flowers. The whole panel is surrounded by a border of step-triangles that completes a single piece of loomwork (all part of the same piece) Strap: Hourglass variation like "pinwheel" design; crawfish variation; unusual "x" and pair of crosses, or arrow inside the crawfish design. Repeating pattern of two motif clusters with suttle vatiations on every one; on one side there are two completely different, forming a third motif cluster. Lineal beadwork with variations of otter-tail and zig-zag . Step-triangle motif edging panel and side strap. Strap: woven in one piece with 14 individual design motif clusters, including a triple row of green diamonds tmarks division between two sides of the strap, but not in exact center (7 design clusters on proper left and 6 proper right).

DP and AGG think there is a closely related bag NMAI.

Hart, Albert Bushnell - 1/1/1877

Cory Willmott, Alan Corbiere, Adrianna Grecci Green and David Penney conducted research on site at the Peabody Museum for Archaeology and Ethnology in July 2007 with help from Susan Haskell and Patricia Capone of the PMAE. Cory Willmott's research was funded by a grant from the American Philosophical Society. Al Corbiere was supported through Ruth Phillips's SSHRC Canada Research Chair Funding. An internal grant from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville provided Cory with an RA, Ceara Horsley, for 2009 and 2010 to work on GRASAC data entry. (CW & CH)

July 12, 2007 (CW)