Bag
Date:
c. 1870
Dimensions:
22 inches × 13 5/8 inches (55.9 × 34.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Founders Society Purchase
Object number:
81.37
The flat rectangular bag is woven of tan cotton fiber and has designs woven in reddish-brown, bordered by vertical stripes of ochre, green and reddish-brown. Design recto: two pairs of confronting underwater panthers, the tips of their tails joined. Design verso: the outline of a large schematic thunderbird, with its body and tail forming an hour glass with stepped triangles along the inner edges and on top of its shoulders.
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