bag
- Museum number
- Am1921,1004.170
- Description
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Shot bag with sling, lined with red wool and cotton, ornamented with glass beads of various colours.
- Production date
- 1921 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 71 centimetres
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Width: 18 centimetres
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Depth: 1 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- see JCH King `First peoples, First contacts' British Museum Press 1999
Register 1921:
Shot bags.
Cree Indians, East Coast of Hudson Bay.
See Turner in 11th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnography.
For Donor's list see ETH DOC 1207, no. 18.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1982-1987 Jun-Jan, Museum of Mankind, Thunderbird and Lightning: Indian Life in North America, 1600-1900
1987-1990 3 Dec-Oct, London, Museum of Mankind, Living Artic: Hunters of the Canadian North
1999 25 Jun-6 May 2021, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The Subarctic"
- Acquisition date
- 1921
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1921,1004.170
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: No 18 (Renouf's list (Eth. Doc. 1207))