bag; drawstring bag

bag; drawstring bag

bag; drawstring bag

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Introduction

Drawstring bag made of deer skin that is dyed dark brown. Features orange and white quills, small tin cones, and red dyed deer hair. Motifs of meandering lines running vertically and quilled loops. On the verso, there is a small checkerboard pattern forming crosses.

Name of Maker(s): Anonymous Haudenosaunee artist
Nation of Maker: Hodenosaunee/Haudenosaunee
Date Made or Date Range: Before 1816
Materials

Made of deer skin that is dyed dark, almost black almost. Features porcupine quills that are orange (faded from red), and white. Includes tin cones and red dyed deer hair.

Techniques or Format

Has two pieces of hide sewn together on the edge. There is a vertical slit quill-wrapped thong as a drawstring. Includes quill-wrapped thongs that are attached to the upper edge of the quilled portion, and hang below the bottom edges with small tin cones and red dyed deer hair.

Motifs and Patterns

Meandered lines run vertically down two edges, and there is a central quilled band that is lined with quilled loops and double curves, with double curves on the bottom. On the verso, instead of meandering lines, there are small checkerboard pattern forming crosses.

Dimensions: 4.3 × 14 × 0 cm
Condition: Very good condition, with some quills faded red.
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

There is a tag on the bag that says "1816 Nord Amerika," indicating early museum accession.

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 000266
Previous Collectors: Erzherzog Johann Baptist
GKS Reference Number: 58992
How to Cite this Item

Unknown Haudenosaunee artist, drawstring bag. Currently in the Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 000266. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip January 2016; GRASAC item id 58992.

Record Creation Context

In January of 2016, a small team of GRASAC researchers visited the collection to study and photograph it: Ruth Phillips, Lisa Truong, Naomi Recollet (Anishinaabe (Odawa/Ojibwe), Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory) and Wahsontiio Cross (Mohawk, Kahnawake). This GKS record was created in November 2021 by GRASAC RA Amelia Healey.

Approximate Place of Origin

43.6, -71.9

Source of Information about Places

Haudenosaunee territory is located in North-eastern North America.