Goose feet with toes attached, size 10 seed beads, silk tape, cotton thread, plaid cotton lining, button. Bead colours: greasy yellow, dusty rose, clear salmon, black, clear.

Made from a pair of hollowed out goose feet with a flap made of same in one piece, lined with cotton and sewn with couched floral beadwork. Flaps and openings are edged with silk tape. On one of the pouches, the opening has a fringe of beaded loops. Both pouches have buttons holes on the lower edge of the flap for buttons that are sewn onto the body.

Floral beadwork mostly berries on one, a single flower looking much like an iris on the other; goose feet

This pair of bags is similar to one at NMAI attributed to the Caddo, also made from a goose foot: http://www.nmai.si.edu/searchcollections/item.aspx?irn=55037&catids=1&o…. Thanks to Ceara Horsley for finding it and identifying the materials!

Unknown artist, pouches. Currently in the British Museum, Am1900,0411.15.a-b. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 25069.