It is made of a moose foot, hoof and lower leg, hair still attached. It is backed or lined with polished cotton, and edged with red stroud and purple silk ribbon. It is embroidered mainly with moosehair with some sections of porcupine quill. The two pockets have a row of tiny metal cones with red, blue and white dyed animal hair and black and white beads on the bottom edge. It has a braided handle of some kind, two strands blue, one strand red. CW is baffled by it.

The hide is cured, elaborated with moosehair embroidery and beading.

The moosehair and porcupine quill designs are floral motifs.

domestic ornament &-- souvenir

Before 1869 certainly as that is the last possible year of collection. Earliest date would be 1860.

Christie was a hatter, also an ethnographer. In 1850 he started on a series of journeys to study ethnography. See BM biography. He could have bought the wall pocket in Niagara Falls or in Quebec.

stylistic feature

J.C.H. King, Thunderbird and Lightning, BMP Ltd., 1982.

Unknown artist, wall pocket. Currently in the British Museum, AM.2586. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 27133.

This record was created as part of a Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC) research trip to the Pitt Rivers Museum and British Museum, December 8-22 2007, funded by a grant from the International Opportunities fund of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Present: HB, RP, JM, CW, AC, AS, SL. (14 Dec., 2007).