wall pocket
wall pocket
wall pocket
Small oval-shaped wall pocket, trimmed with ermine fur, and decorated with silk floral embroidery. Features a cotton loop for hanging on the wall.
British Museum Catalog Record.
Read More About This Relative
Made of fur; ermine, hide, silk embroidery thread; red, green, pink, yellow, purple.
"Small oval shaped bag, wall pocket of white skin, the main face embroidered with green and yellow foliage, three large pink, purple and orange flowers, and a spray of violet leaves/flowers; the top section is embroidered with two sprays of foliage and a group of eight circular purple and orange elements, perhaps forming a fruit. The pouch is backed in black material decorated with blue and beige stripes, piled like velvet; the same material lines the back of the pouch, while grey cotton lines the front of the pouch. The opening and edge are decorated with strips of white fur, perhaps ermine or rabbit, and there is a cotton loop for suspension at the back." -British Museum Online Catalog Record.
The design is asymmetrical.
British Museum Catalog Card.
Provenance
Mrs. Frances Kitson
British Museum Living Arctic.
About This GRASAC Record
Unknown Métis/Cree artist, wall pocket. Currently in the British Museum, 1936 1020.13. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 24406.
Record created as part of practicum, winter 2009.