1950.5.19

Collection type

Object

Description

Deerskin pipe bag decorated with beadwork.

Long description

Deerskin pipe bag decorated with beadwork in white and black. With long fringe at one end and short fringe at the other, with tin jingles attached to the strands. Attached by a string is a long brass wire pin, as a pipe cleaner. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 7/11/2005]

Geographical reference

Canada

Northern America > North America > Canada

United States of America

Northern America > North America > United States of America

Cultural groups

Native American

Person

Field collector Charles Alexander Pope

PRM source Christ Church, University of Oxford

PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History

PRM source Department of Comparative Anatomy, Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Date / Period

Date made: 1820-1870

Date collected

pre 1865

Acquisition information

Found unentered: 1950

Materials and processes

Material Bead, Material Deer Skin Animal, Material Tin Metal, Material Brass Metal, Material Animal Sinew, Process Beadwork

Dimensions

Length: max 280 mm Fringe, Length: max 320 mm Bag, Length: max 144 mm Pipecleaner, Width: max 110 mm bag

Object numbers

Accession number: 1950.5.19

Research and responses

For an account of the Charles A. Pope Collection, see 'Speaking for Themselves: The Pope Collection of Native American Artifacts in the Pitt Rivers Museum', by Lindsey Richardson (University of Oxford: M.Sc. dissertation in Material Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, 2001); copy in RDF (Collectors: Pope). [JC 6 1 2004]

Search terms: Ritual and Ceremonial, Bag, Tool, Narcotic, Tobacco Accessory, Pipe, Ceremonial Object