Bag
Datec. 1870
Object PlaceMichigan, United States, North America
ClassificationsAccessories
Dimensions22 inches × 13 5/8 inches (55.9 × 34.6 cm)
Credit LineFounders Society Purchase
Object number81.37
DescriptionThe 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.On View
On viewCollections
- Native American Minds of Colonial America Copy
Locations
- Exhibition Demo Museum (Hanover Square), Wing A, The Americas, Gallery 5
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c. 1870
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late 12th/early 13th Century