Ammunition Pouch

NA9488

From: Alaska | Klukwan

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA9488
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chilkat | Tlingit
Provenience Alaska | Klukwan
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Section American
Materials Wool | Iron | Glass | Shell | Silk
Description

Ammunition pouch with beaded designs. Typical shape with a rounded bottom and a concave upper edge, slightly higher on the sides than in the center. Black wool trade cloth ground. The opening is roughly one quarter of the way down the pouch and has a shell button closure. Beaded designs on the lower three quarters features a floral garland below, three stars in the upper portion, and a central bear in profile made with skeletal motifs (skull, ribs). Beads are white, blue, green, yellow, red, orange, pink, and metallic gray. The edges of the pouch are lined with red wool bordered by white beads. The interior of the border uses smaller gauge beads than the beadwork along the exterior of the border.

Length 27.4 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1923
Other Number 11 - Other Number

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