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1949.10.84

Semi-circular deerskin bag.

1949.10.84

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Collection type
Object
Description
Semi-circular deerskin bag.
Long description
Semi-circular deerskin bag trimmed with rectangles of blue, green, black and yellow beadwork and metal jingles with deer hair. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 4/1/2006]
Cultural groups
Native American
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source E.B. Perry
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1900
Date collected
1850 - 1900
Acquisition information
Donated: 1949
Materials and processes
Material Bead, Material Deer Skin Animal, Material Metal, Material Animal Sinew, Material Animal Hair, Process Beadwork, Process Stitched
Dimensions
Width: max 530 mm, Length: max 360 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1949.10.84
Research and responses

Related Documents File - i) Letter from E. B. Perry to T. K. Penniman referring to the 'Mexican gaucho belts' that had been omitted from the list which accompanied the objects when they were sent to the Museum. ii) 'List of South North American Indian Clothing'. iii) Letter from E. B. Perry to Beatrice Blackwood dated 1 November, 1949: 'The error on my part of referring to the items as South American Indian is of long standing I am afraid, although I ought to have known better as I am not quite ignorant on such matters and clothing in bucksking or elk, as you have found it to be, should have at once told me that they were of North American Indian make. These items were left to me in 1937 by a friend . . . and were then described incorrectly, as being South American, with the result that I did not query the matter very much. I am afriad I cannot help you very much as to the person who actually collected the items, simply that they had been in turn, left to my friend, many years ago by an Uncle of his who was a world travelled man, and I think you would not be so far out in classifying them as around the middle to late 19th century.' iv) Receipt to E. B. Perry for £5.0.0 paid by the Pitt Rivers Museum for 'North American Indian and Mexican objects.' [GI 1/2/2002]

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