Made of smoked deerskin, cotton cloth, red silk binding, porcupine quills dyed red and faded to orange, glass wampum beads in black and white, metal cones, red dyed deer hair, sinew and vegetable fibre thread.

The bag's face has a panel of loomwoven glass wampum with 26 horizontal rows of beads and 27 warps. The bag's sides are edged in zig zag line quillwork, followed by a row of glass wampum five beads deep -- these may have been woven on the bias and applied as a strip, or may be spot-stitched onto the bag. The bottom of the bag is also edged with a row of glass wampum, on the bias, eight beads deep, white at the ends with six black beads in the middle. The top cloth edge of the bag above the panel was formerly decorated with a row of white and one black bead each, of which two on the right hand side survive. The outer edge of the bag was originally decorated with rows of metal cones containing red-dyed deer hair now faded to orange, most of which are now missing, except at the bottom. The strap has six warps, for five rows of black glass wampum, with nine white diamonds evenly spaced along the length. The strap is attached to the pouch by taking the warp threads from the strap and tying them to the pouch. The back side is pieced of scraps of deer hide. Fairly high on the virtuosity meter.

The design is on one side of the pouch only. The front has three white hexagons at the bottom and six white diamonds at the top. The strap has nine diamonds evenly spaced along its length.

Purchased by the British Museum from Lieutenant-General Augustus W H Meyrick in 1878. Previously owned by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick.

Unknown artist, bag, shoulder. Currently in the British Museum, Am1878.1101.625. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 26815.

This record was created as part of a Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC) research trip to the Pitt Rivers Museum and British Museum, December 8-22 2007, funded by a grant from the International Opportunities fund of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

Researchers present: Heidi Bohaker (HB), John Borrows (JB), Lindsay Borrows (LB), Darlene Johnston (DJ), Jonathan King (JK), Stacey Loyer (SL), Janis Monture (JM), Bruce Morito (BM), Ruth Phillips (RP), Cory Willmott (CW).