Tanned hide, red and black paints, metal cones, dyed moose hair, vegetable fibre and/or porcupine quills

The pouch is made of two panels, sealed with side seams. The vegetable fibre/quill work pattern is sewn at the bottom. Metal cones with moosehair adorn the left and right edges of the pouch as opposed to the bottom. Hide is hand painted and the woven pattern at the bottom of the pouch is hand woven. Strings of thin hide wrapped in vegetable fibre serves as the strap and used to be tied through holes on the pouch, but is broken away on one side.

Painted motifs may be of people or stars, possibly even birds. Some triangle patterns with three parallel lines (maybe meant to be people in canoes). It is also a possibility the patterns represent imagery of Catholicism, with the motifs actually being crosses and the lines/triangles being a church setting. This is suggest by RA Autumn Epple due to the existence of Jesuit missions in the Great Lakes at this time.

Based on two similar pouches in the collection (GKS #864 and GKS #25703), as well as the style and materials, Autumn Epple theorizes this pouch dates from 1700 to 1760.

Unknown artist, pouch. Currently in the Musée du quai Branly, 71.1878.32.146. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip; GRASAC item id 27059.