- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Leather pouch with jingling metal-sheathed hair fringes and squared zigzag quillwork and textile handle. [ZM 3/2/2005]
- Long description
- Leather pouch with jingling metal-sheathed hair fringes and squared zigzag quillwork and textile handle. 2 rows horizontal quillwork across pouch; tinkle cones with hair tufts along lower edge of lower quillwork strip. Woven ?wool strap, not finger woven, may be commercial trade item. Remnants of red silk ribbon edging.
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Lenape
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Circa 1800-1825
- Date collected
- By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Metal, Material Hair, Material Porcupine Quill Animal, Material Textile, Process Quillwork, Process Woven, Process Stitched
- Dimensions
- Length: max 330 mm excluding handle, Width: max 220 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.63.78 PR Cat other PR nos: 2879
- Research and responses
On research visit 2005, Christian Feest confirmed that this quillwork design is associated with the Delaware.
Date assigned based on materials and style: Laura Peers, 2/9/2005
Ray Gonyea, Curator of Native American Art & Culture at the Eiteljorg Museum Indianapolis USA, examined this object in May 2006 and noted down the following information. The 'front of body, now rawhide, may have been fur covered - see Ruth Phillips(?) re design of Underwater Monster swimming.' [see related documents file]. The reason Gonyea thought this might originally have been covered in fur is because there are traces of skin where hair follicles would have been attached, these are usually totally removed if intended as rawhide. [ZM 30/05/2006]
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