The front of the neck pouch is made of deer skin, smoked and dyed dark brown. The back is made with smoked deer skin (light brown). It is lined with black woollen cloth, and includes porcupine quills and cotton thread.

The neck pouch has two pieces of hide lined with black woollen cloth and rounded at the bottom. It would have had a strap, which is now missing, and would have possibly been worn around the neck. Contains a complex zigzag pattern, appears similar to a double zigzag.

There are 3 concentric circles which form the centre of a cross or star. Contains 4 pairs of double cures coming out from points of stars, with plant-like elements coming out from double curves containing 3 petals on top and one on the bottom. These elements resemble Seneca motifs in beadwork.

Extraordinarily fine quill work.

Johann Georg Schwarz collected this item, possibly when he traveled to Detroit and through Upper Canada in the winter of 1820-1821.

Johann Georg Schwarz traveled to Detroit and through Upper Canada in the winter of 1820-1821.

Unknown Haudenosaunee artist, neck pouch. Currently in the Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 11981. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip January 2016; GRASAC item id 58991.

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.