cordage (cotton or hemp); wool yarn (green, red, brown, pink)

typical for panel bags

One side: Central design field of four rows of T-birds; paired facing each other topped by row of half-hour glass; Other side: five rows of 3 "panthers" that look more like deer.

DP says there are three or four other Winnebago examples like this with similar treatment of materials and Panthers (no lining so beadwork panel in two weft loomwork forms the front of the pouch (NMAI and DIA).

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)