bag
- Museum number
- Eu1996,15.4
- Description
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Reindeer-skin bag, pouch-shaped, with drawstring handle made of twisted reindeer-skin with tassels at each end formed of red and green felted wool (?) and looped strings of white, pink, red and colourless glass beads; on each side a panel of felted wool (?) with beadwork embroidery in the form of a central cross motif set on fabric of contrasting colour, beaded border, and, round the edge, a series of ivory or bone rings hung from glass bead loops.
On one side the cross is in yellow and colourless glass beads on blue felted wool against a red felted wool background, with purple glass bead border; on the other, the cross is in pink and orange beads on yellow felted wool against a green felted wool background, with pink and red beaded border. At the top of each panel is a band of contrasting red or green felted wool.
- Production date
- 20thC (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 25.20 centimetres
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Width: 18 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- For similar bags made by Sámi craftspeople, see 'Duodji', exhibition catalogue, Varanger Sámi Museum, nd.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2020-2021 October-Feb, London, BM, Arctic: culture and climate
- Acquisition date
- 1996
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- Eu1996,15.4