Drawstring buckskin bag with beaded floral designs in blue, red, green, pink & black and buckskin fringes along the lower edge. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 4/1/2006]

Collection type: Object
Description: Drawstring buckskin bag with beaded floral designs in blue, red, green, pink & black and buckskin fringes along the lower edge. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 4/1/2006]
Long description: Description by Marcia Anderson, Chief Curator, Minnesota Historical Society, at 1999 visit: Small deerskin drawstring closure bag. The leather drawstring is pulled through slits in the top of the bag (double loop method). There is an irregular cut leather fringe sewn into the seam 75% of the way around. Combination of large and small beads on both sides. There are two different "floral sprays" as motifs. Beadwork not good quality. [JN 21/2/2000]
Geographical reference: United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America; Minnesota
Cultural groups: Chippewa
Person: Field collector Beatrice Mary Blackwood; PRM source Beatrice Mary Blackwood
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1939
Date collected: 1939
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1939
Materials and processes: Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Bead, Process Beadwork
Dimensions: Height: max 85 mm, Width: max 140 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1939.6.22B Other PRM accession number: 1939.6.B 22
Research and responses: Related Documents File - Includes 'List of objects bought for the Pitt Rivers Museum by Beatrice Blackwood, Summer 1939' and receipts from 'Mr. Fake . . . Park Studio, Park Rapids, Minnesota.' [GI 11/12/2001]

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