Tanned, black-dyed deerskin; porcupine quills, yellow, blue, red, white; silk grosgrain ribbon, blue, red; cotton thread; small cylindrical glass beads,small white, large blue; metal cones; red-dyed animal hair.

Quill work in simple line, zigzag band, one-quill edging stitches

This pouch and Pouch NMI 1902.325 represent a small group of late eighteenth-century oblong black pouches from the central Great Lakes region. all are closely related stylistically and most display finely embroidered images of Thunderbirds. The overall shape of the pouch was probably derived from the widely used pouches made of the whole skins of animals such as otters and muskrats. The images displayed on them are derived from dream representations of the cosmic manitos and their powers.

Period of Grant's military service in Canada

Phillips, Ruth. Patterns of Power. Kleinburg,On.:McMichael Canadian,1984.

GRASAC Research trip to National Museum of Ireland July 22 2010. Participants, Alan Corbiere, Ruth Phillips, Crystal Migwans, Nicholas Stolle, assisted by Padraig Clancy and Emma Crosby