bag
- Museum number
- Am1949,06.6
- Description
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Pouch; sewn of velvet; pouch sewn of black velvet with burgundy velvet band at top; drawstring sewn through top babnd, with silk tassels out either side; decorated with floral glass beadwork.
- Production date
- 19thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Height: 15 centimetres
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Width: 14 centimetres
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Depth: 2 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1949:
Plains Indian, probably Cree, Canada.
Collected from Indians of Canada, mostly from Saskatchewan and Manitoba by the late James A. Head (donor's uncle) between 1881 and 1896.
Part at the time of Reid's Rebellion, 1884.
Mr Head lived near an old Siuox trail at "Rapid City" Manitoba.
See letter from H.T. Mann, 21/7/49.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1987-1990 3 Dec-1 Jul, Museum of Mankind, Room 3; Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
- Acquisition date
- 1949
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1949,06.6
