Vegetal fiber, cotton twine

The flat rectangular bag is woven of tan cotton fiber and has designs woven in reddish-brown, bordered by vertical stripes of ochre, green and reddish-brown.

Design recto: two pairs of confronting underwater panthers, the tips of their tails joined. Design verso: the outline of a large schematic thunderbird, with its body and tail forming an hour glass with stepped triangles along the inner edges and on top of its shoulders. Diagonals wrapping around the sides are stained on after weaving.

The stepped triangle pattern on the verso may be a skydome pattern, where the thunderbirds dwell (AC), or an abstraction of the thunderbird itself (DP). The four losenges on the recto may be offering dishes (CW) or abstractions of the creature itself (DP), or the outlines of the four lakes in which the creatures live (AC). The females (perhaps indicated by the lack of horns), have spaces in them with little figures which may perhaps be unborn underwater panthers (DJ).

Pohrt acquired this bag as a gift from Mary Shurtleff (Cross Village, Michigan) in 1966.