Deer skin, medium brown smoke; coarse stroud cloth, green (faded to olive); ribbon, red with metallic thread; porcupine quills, red (faded to orange), black, blue, yellow and white; green thread; metal needle.

Made from a single piece of hide cut in an oval on one end with a square on the other. It has three pockets ornamented with folded quillwork and single quill embroidery. There is a hole at the top for hanging. Decorated with button hole stitch.

A thunderbird motif with a heart line is found in the centre with heart line, framed with a border of zig zags in the centre panel. A double zig zag is found above the top panel and around the oval end. At the top, in the centre, are two opposed abstract lines with opposing curving lines which suggest a figure with raised arms, doing a half squat.

The type of stroud found on this item is also known as drab "cloth." It is mainly associated with big fur trade centres because green cloth circulated in small quantities.(Cory Willmott)

The sacred nature of the thunderbird imagery displayed on this item suggests that it may have been adapted twice and that part or all of it may originally have been part of a shoulder bag or a tabbed bag. (Ruth Phillips August 22, 2010)

Based upon style.

Purchased by the British Museum from the Yorkshire Philosophical Society Museum in 1921.

Unknown Anishinaabe artist, wall pocket. Currently in the British Museum, Am1921,1014.99. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 26561.

Researchers present: Heidi Bohaker (HB), John Borrows (JB), Lindsay Borrows (LB), Alan Corbiere (AC), Jonathan King (JK), Henrietta Lidchi (HL), Stacey Loyer (SL), Janis Monture (JM), Bruce Morito (BM), Ruth Phillips (RP), Anne De Stecher (AS), Cory Willmott (CW).

Researchers present: Heidi Bohaker (HB), John Borrows (JB), Lindsay Borrows (LB), Darlene Johnston (DJ), Stacey Loyer (SL), Janis Monture (JM), Bruce Morito (BM), Ruth Phillips (RP), Cory Willmott (CW).