bag; drawstring bag
bag; drawstring bag
bag; drawstring bag
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.
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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.
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.
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.
There is a tag on the bag that says "1816 Nord Amerika," indicating early museum accession.
Provenance
About This GRASAC Record
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.
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.
43.6, -71.9
Haudenosaunee territory is located in North-eastern North America.