Pouch

Pouch

Pouch

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Introduction

This brown-dyed, tanned deerskin pouch, elaborated with quill work, is of Anishinaabe origin and dates from the late 18th century.

Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe
Nation of Origin

Patterns of Power: Ojibwe

Date Made or Date Range: 1780-1800
Materials

Brown-dyed, tanned deerskin; porcupine quills, black, blue, red, orange, natural white; sinew; thin brass strips; red-dyed animal hair.

Techniques or Format

Quill work in simple line, zigzag band, and one-quill edging stitches; brass strips wrapped around red-dyed animal hair.

Other Notes

This pouch is unique among the small surviving number of dark-dyed oblong pouches in its lack of Thunderbird imagery. The two different types of birds displayed on front and back resemble the small birds ranged under the thunderbird in Cat. 17 (NMI 1890.497)which represent subsidiary upper world manitos.

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

Patterns of Power: late 18th Century

Current Location: Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa, Canada
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: CMH III-G-822
Link to Institution's Collections Database: https://www.historymuseum.ca/collections/artifact/33829
Collection Narratives and Histories

From the Speyer, Greatorex (Whitechapel Museum), and Hooper Collections.

Publication History

Phillips, Ruth. Patterns of Power. Kleinburg,On.: McMichael Canadian Collection, 1984.

GKS Reference Number: 1278
Approximate Place of Origin

45.5017, -73.5673

Source of Information about Places

Patterns of Power: Ojibwe

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