tabbed bag

tabbed bag

tabbed bag

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Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe Other
Nation of Origin

The bag is identified as Delaware by the museum, the region of origin and iconography suggest Anishinaabe

Date Made or Date Range: 1790s to 1810s
Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

A tabbed hide bag of dark brown smoked deerskin, probably Anishinaabe although identified as Delaware by the Smithsonian. Motifs on one side are a thunderbird with two snakes in its talons on the body of the bag and horned serpents on tabs, verso has horned serpents on tabs and large "X" on body.

Materials

dark brown smoked deerskin, porcupine quills , two ply twisted sinew (?) orange, blue, red, white quills, red and white silk ribbon binding

Techniques or Format

front and bag cut whole, wen together at sides, bound with two ply fiber oversewn with quills, upper edges cut as "U" shape are bound with two colours of silk ribbon

Motifs and Patterns

Thunderbird, horned serpents, snakes, "X"

Dimensions: 0 × 0 × 0 mm
Condition: fair, but quill colours faded and ribbon frayed, the quill wrapped binding has come away in places
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Similarity to dates bags of this type such as two collected by Jasper Grant in the National Museum of Ireland between 1805-09 and one belonging to Return Jonathan Meigs collected between the 1790s and early 19th c now in the Thaw Collection, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown

Current Location: National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: E154012
GKS Reference Number: 26557
Record Creation Context

GRASAC research trip sponsored by Smithsonian's Recovering Voices project.

Record Creation Notes/Observations

Gwyn Isaac, Curator of Ethnology supoorted this research trip

Approximate Place of Origin

43.0703, -80.1184

Source of Information about Places

very similar bags collected in the Detroit-Windsor, Ontario area by Jasper Grant and Return Jonathan Meigs

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