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Introduction

Tanned hide pouch with woven vegetable fibre and some porcupine quill work. The zigzag motif is strongly represented and well constructed. The top of the pouch is missing its drawstring closure, and there may have been metal cones adorning the bottom of the pouch, but they appear missing from the remaining quills.

Nation of Maker: Huron-Wendat
Nation of Origin

The style reflects Eastern Great Lakes traditions and materials. Autumn Epple theorizes Huron-Wendat based on that.

Date Made or Date Range: Early 18 C to Late 18 C
Materials

Tanned hide; hide thong as drawstring; vegetable fibre, dyed black, red, and white; porcupine quills

Techniques or Format

The pouch is made of two panels, sealed with side seams. The vegetable fibre pattern is sewn at the bottom. Porcupine quillwork lines the bottom of the vegetable fibre, but many pieces are missing.

Other Notes

This is similar to GKS #864, which is in better condition. Based on how that pouch looks, this pouch may be missing metal cones with moosehair adornments that would have been attached to the missing quills at the bottom.

Condition: Fair. The hide is slightly warped near the drawstring. Many porcupine quills at the bottom are missing, suggesting that any adornment that may have once be there are also gone.
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

A similar pouch in better condition exists in the same institution under GKS ID 864. Autumn Epple believes based on style and materials it dates between 1700 and 1760.

Current Location: Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Paris, France
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 71.1878.32.147
GKS Reference Number: 25703
How to Cite this Item

Unknown artist, pouch. Currently in the Musée du quai Branly, 71.1878.32.147. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip; GRASAC item id 25703.

Approximate Place of Origin

45.7335, -82.1694

Source of Information about Places

Based on style and materials.

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