Museum number
Am1991,09.4
Full: Front
Rectangular flat pouch or bag, with strap, fingerwoven of wool. The
flat bag is constructed from one or two pieces of red wool plaited cloth, with
a central resist [undyed] paler horizontal stripe across the front. The vertical
edges include black wool.
Rectangular flat pouch or bag, with strap, fingerwoven of wool. The
flat bag is constructed from one or two pieces of red wool plaited cloth, with
a central resist [undyed] paler horizontal stripe across the front. The
vertical edges include black wool, with a line of opaque white beads and
stitching in a brown vegetal thread. The bottom seam also includes stitching in
a brown vegetal thread, with a line of quill wrapped wool fringing, each ending
in a red hair filled metal comb, the colour of the quills being alternating
black and white bands. The front of the bag is further decorated, just above
the resist dyed strip, with a further fringe similar to that at the bottom.
Woven into the front of the bag is a geometric design in irregular opaque white
beads: two vertical lines of chevrons, with a double zig zag line up the centre
and single zig-zag lines up both vertical edges. The points of the chevrons
face downwards. The back and less faded side of the bag is decorated with a
double row, vertical, each of butterfly-like geometric designs, each row being
3 high; the vertical seams each have rows of five small diamonds. All the
patterns are in the same opaque white glass beads. The top of the bag is edged
with green tape, enclosed in lines of white beads, back and front. The bag is
lined with a coarse reddish manufactured cloth. // The strap is also plaited,
in two greenish colours, that at the edge being slightly yellower than the
reddish green colour of the body of the strap. The strap is attached by sewing with
the brown vegetable thread at the two top corners of the pouch opening. The strap
finishes on both sides with a plaited wool fringe, on the left [from the front]
with six plaits, and on the right with five plaits. Woven into these plaits or
braids are white beads, incorporating slightly darker green wool. The main body
of the strap incorporates in the weaving a diamond pattern of white beads, with
along the slightly contrasting colour edges, rows of white beads, at the
absolute edge and at the boundary between the two colours. Repairs to the
beadwork seem to have been carried out with this darker green wool.
