Parfleche Bag
| Object Number: | 70-9-439 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Blackfeet |
| Provenience: | Great Plains (Plain) |
| Culture Area: | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Locus: | Blackfeet |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Rawhide Pigment Buckskin Wool |
| Height: | 27 cm |
| Width: | 28 cm |
| Credit Line: | Bequest of Samuel Pennypacker, 1970 |
| Other Number: | NA1600 - Collector Number |
Description
Made of a single piece of leather folded over upon itself, and sewn up the sides. There is a remaining flap of leather which closes the bag at the top. This flap has red material stitched on around its rim. The sides are heavily fringed. Everything is stitched with rawhide strips or leather thongs. The front of the bag has a faded design painted on in blue, red and yellow.
Bibliography:
| [Other] Wm. D. Morley, Inc. Inventory and Appraisement - Personal Property - The Estate of Samuel W. Pennypacker, 2nd, Dec'd. - Haldeman Road Schwenksville, RD 1 Penna. October 15, 1968.. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 28 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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