Medicine Bag

45-15-849

From: North America

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 45-15-849
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Ojibwa
Provenience North America
Culture Area Northeast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Beaver Skin | Bead
Description

Beaver skin bag. Entire skin (minus front feet), woven bead coverings with attached beaded tassels for the legs, navel, anus, and tail. Associated pendant made of beaver front foot with a single beaded tassel. Bead colors on coverings in red, blue, white, pink, yellow. Tassels made of pink, blue and white beads, with red tufts of fiber at the end.

Length 85 cm
Width 26.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

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