pouch, beaded

pouch, beaded

pouch, beaded

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Introduction

A Cree-made, brown woolen bag refashioned from a women's legging panel, embellished with overlay beadwork in a floral pattern with a flap and tie thong closing. Part of the Pearsall collection acquired in 1963

Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular nation(s)

FLMNH database attributes this as Anishinaabe/Ojibwe. Catalogue card says that N. Feder attributed it as Cree (no date)

Date Made or Date Range: 1890
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

FLMNH records

Materials

brown woolen cloth; beige muslin; polychrome glass seed beads; red, machine knitted braid; rolled tin, red feather (remnants)

Techniques or Format

Reworked from a section of a woman's legging panel, has been folded and sewn along the sides, woolen cloth with overlay stitch polychrome floral motif seem beadwork; pouch has muslin loner and machine knitted red braid edging; two rolled tin cones on thongs with traces of red feather fluffs in ends are on the front; pouch probably had more cones, originally; Tie thong front; all sewing done with thread; seed bead edging on each side of the braid edging.

Motifs and Patterns

floral

Dimensions: 7.5 × 6 × 0 in
Condition: catalogue card says "excellent" but cones and feathers are likely missing.
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

approximate, FLMNH records, N. Feder.

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: P0373
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1963-12-17
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: 1900/1960
Collection Narratives and Histories

Items purchased on the art market by Col. Leigh M. Pearsall between 1900 and 1960. Purchased from Pearsall by the University of Florida Endowment Corp. The collection contains several thousand archeological and ethnographic specimens chiefly from North America, and comprises a large portion of the FLMNH's ethnographic collection.

GKS Reference Number: 27043
Record Creation Notes/Observations

Made from the records of the FLMNH