Pouch

Pouch

Pouch

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Introduction

This tanned hide pouch elaborated with netted quill work is of Anishinaabe origin and dates from around 1780.

Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe
Nation of Origin

Patterns of Power: Eastern Ojibwe

Date Made or Date Range: 178u
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

Patterns of Power

Materials

Tanned skin; red pigment; porcupine quills, natural white, red, gold, black; fine thongs; metal cones; red-dyed moosehair.

Techniques or Format

Quill work in netted technique on fine thongs.

Motifs and Patterns

The stylized animals depicted on the pouch collected by Caldwell might possibly be representations of the horned serpentine companions of the Underwater Panther (Patterns of Power).

Dimensions: 44 × 23 × 0 cm
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Patterns of Power

Current Location: Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa, Canada
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: CMC III-G-824
Collection Narratives and Histories

This pouch was collected by Sir John Caldwell, an officer in the British army during the American Revolution in the same eastern Great Lakes posts where Jasper Grant served about 20 years afterwards.

Publication History

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

GKS Reference Number: 1284
Approximate Place of Origin

43.6511, -79.347

Source of Information about Places

Patterns of Power

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