Bag
Date:
c. 1860
Medium:
Vegetal fiber, wool yarn, buckskin tie
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 x 10 1/2 inches (17.8 x 26.7 cm)
Length of leather end ties: 13 3/4 inches (34.9 cm)
Length of leather end ties: 13 3/4 inches (34.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Founders Society Purchase
Object number:
81.390
The rectangular bag with suede end tie has a tan background and vertical red and black stripes framing the design field. Recto: off-center toward bottom right is an underwater panther/deer creature with antlers and a very long tail, surrounded by groups of parallel, but not continuous, black zigzag and angular lines. Verso: centered below 2 1/2 bands of black fretted lines is a black thunderbird with two small thunderbirds attached to its wing-tips.
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