Food Gathering Bag
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- Date
- 1900 – 1930
- Material
- grass; skin; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.1026 a-c
- Description
- Finely woven corn husk bags, 3 sizes with different geometric patterns. (a) 20.0x17.0, continuous weave, sewn together at bottom. Fabric sewn onto top edge, buckskin loop for handle. (b) 31.0x24.5, woven and decorated same technique as (a), different design. 2 buckskin loops sewn on back with 3…
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- Title
- Food Gathering Bag
- Date
- 1900 – 1930
- Material
- grass; skin; fibre
- Description
- Finely woven corn husk bags, 3 sizes with different geometric patterns. (a) 20.0x17.0, continuous weave, sewn together at bottom. Fabric sewn onto top edge, buckskin loop for handle. (b) 31.0x24.5, woven and decorated same technique as (a), different design. 2 buckskin loops sewn on back with 33.0 long handle. (c) 46.0x37.0, woven same technique as a and b but with sisal. Decoration dyed and plain corn husk overlay.
- Subject
- Indigenous, Montana
- households
- weaving
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.1026 a-c
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