Materials

birch bark moose hair, red faded to orange, black, green, dark blue, dark orange, light orange, white, black cotton thread sides are made out of a pink silk satin possibly quill

Techniques or Format

sewn with moose hair embroidery. made out of three pieces of bark sewn together, and edged with bundled moose hair and alternating threads. Sides are formed with a silk satin.

Motifs and Patterns

front has a man &#38-- a woman seated on the ground, the woman is smoking a pipe, woman has a peaked cap and the man has feathers in his hair. There are flowers on either side, and a kettle hanging over the tripod. Flowers on the lid. On the back of the wallet: a man half kneeling and appears to be smoking a long piped stem, a calumet

Dimensions: 39.5 × 22 × 0 cm

Condition: fair and fragile, missing embroidery. good structural.

Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

1750-1815 ish.

Current Location: Cuming Museum, London, UK

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: C09476

GKS Reference Number: 25106