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Introduction

Rectangular shaped animal skin pouch decorated with beadwork and coiled metal wire with small chain. Attributed to Hodenosaunee, made between 1850-1870. Purchased by the museum from L. Yvan in 1885.

Nation of Maker: Hodenosaunee/Haudenosaunee
Nation of Origin

Museum documentation

Date Made or Date Range: 1850-1870
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

Museum documentation, GRASAC generated

Materials

one piece of animal skin; glass beads; fine vegetable fibre or thread; coil metal wire; wire metal chain

Techniques or Format

Pouch is made of one piece of folded animal skin cut to have a pointed flap. The sides are secured with coiled metal wire, one side decorated with a string of white glass beads. The flap is decorated with glass beads and edged with coiled metal wire that is attached to a metal wire chain at the point of the flap.

Motifs and Patterns

Three semi-circular shapes or domes on a white ground repeated three times on the flap; the lines of the domes look like chain linkages.

Other Notes

Coiled wire and chain may have been repurposed from another object

Dimensions: 10 × 13.4 × 0 cm
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Museum documentation

Current Location: Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 524-7
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1885
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: L. Yvan
Collection Narratives and Histories

Purchased from L. Yvan in 1885

GKS Reference Number: 25696
Approximate Place of Origin

43.0703, -80.1184

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