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shoulder bag
shoulder bag
shoulder bag
Shoulder bag made from deer hide smoked medium-light brown, porcupine quills, red woollen yarn and glass beads. The quillwork creates alternating square and triangular contour, inside of each has an equal armed cross and a row of triangles along the top of each band. The style of this object is similar to pieces created in Northern Ontario and in Red River, Manitoba.
Northern Ojibwe or Cree; Red River area of Winnipeg; based on motif and stripped beadwork
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Deer hide smoked medium-light brown, porcupine quills, red woollen yarn and glass beads
Quillwork form alternating squares and triangular contours, inside of each is an equal armed cross and a row of terraced triangles along the top of each band; (pattern can be found also on hide clothing in Northern Ontario)
CONSTRUCTION DETAILS:
two pieces of hide front and back; two bands of woven quill work appliqued on front with fringes of strung glass beads and red wollen yarn, glass beads are strung to form horizontal stripes which is typical of cree work
Provenance
About This GRASAC Record
Unknown Indigenous artist, shoulder bag. Currently in the Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 11967. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip January 2016; GRASAC item ID 45143.
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 2021 by GRASAC RA Amelia Healey.