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Bag or wallet of Indian hemp string ornamented with colored yarn design
Bag or wallet of Indian hemp string ornamented with colored yarn design
Object Number 15-36-10/86280
Display Title Bag or wallet of Indian hemp string ornamented with colored yarn design
Descriptions
Inventory Description Bag, woven vegetable fiber, multi-hue stitched zoomorphic/geom.
Classification
  • Bag
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1915
Culture
  • Sahaptian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia
Materials Vegetable fiber, Yarn, Leather, Dye
Dimensions Overall: 29.2 x 22 x 0.6 cm (11 1/2 x 8 11/16 x 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 86280
Credit Line Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1915
Provenance
Seller James A. Teit (?)
Collector James A. Teit

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