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shoulder bag
shoulder bag
shoulder bag
Shoulder bag made of three pieces of deer hide dyed dark brown, porcupine quills, and a single tin cone. The strap is made of a wrapped thong quill. Patterns on the front of the bag include three "x" shapes that curve downward on the upper ends of each shape. There is a pattern of chained diamonds on the lower section of the bag that ends in a "v" shape on each end.
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Three pieces of deer skin dyed dark brown, porcupine quills, single tin cone, strap is a thong quill wrapped
3 X shaped formed ending in downward curves in the upper portion; probably stylized thunderbirds; line of chained diamonds in the lower section ending in V-shape at each end (RP thinks it is a representation of an underwater being);
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About This GRASAC Record
Unknown Indigenous artist, shoulder bag. Currently in the Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 148707. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip January 2016; GRASAC item id 59000.
In January of 2016, a small team of GRASAC researchers visited the collection to study and photograph it: Ruth Phillips, Lisa Truong, Naomi Recollet (Anishinaabe (Odawa/Ojibwe), Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory) and Wahsontiio Cross (Mohawk, Kahnawake). This GKS record was created in November of 2021 by GRASAC RA Aidan Mitchell-Boudreau.