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Pocket

Object Number:45-15-814
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Ojibwa (uncertain)
Provenience: North America
Culture Area: Northeast Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Buckskin
Tin
Length: 25.4 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945
Other Number:CG911125-2312 - Found in Collection Number

Description

Intact buckskin pocket decorated with quillwork and edged with white beads around the top section. The exterior edges of the entire pocket (minus the bottom edge) are lined with a black fiber. Tassels from the bottom each have a single red bead followed by a tin pendant. Another row of tassels off a quill worked middle section that have an elongated tan bead followed by a tin pendant; most of these tan beads are missing.

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