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pouch
pouch
pouch
A twined pouch made of vegetable fibre decorated with false moosehair embroidery and quillwork in geometric motifs, and a quill wrapped strap. Possibly Hodenosaunee or Huron-Wendat in origin and dates from the eighteenth century. Purchased by the museum in 1889 from a seller referred to as N. N.
Museum documentation indicates both "Huron" and "Mohawk"
Museum documentation, GRASAC generated
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Vegetable fibre, possibly hemp(?); dyed moosehair; dyed porcupine quills; hide thongs
The pouch is twined and made of woven vegetable fibre with false moosehair embroidery in geometric motifs, the dyed moosehair is wrapped around the weft threads as they are woven between the warp threads. Quill is wrapped around groups of warp threads using the one quill plaiting technique to form a band near the opening of the pouch. The strap is made of vegetable fibre threads wrapped with dyed quills in one quill plaiting technique. Long hide thongs have been interwoven around the quill wrapped threads at each end of the strap and laced and tied around the quill wrapped threads at the top of the pouch.
Alternating blocks of colour of orange, white and dark brown; parallel lines; X's; linked diamonds; four diagonal lines at the base of the pouch.
Museum documentation
Provenance
Bought from N. N. in 1889
Ted Brasser. Native American Clothing: an illustrated History. Firefly books; Richmond Hill, 2009, p 77.