Beaded bag and strap

Titles: Beaded bag and strap (Supplied title)

Description: Loom-woven rectangular bag with long strap made with multicolored glass seed beads in checkered design. Bag features net bead fringe along outer seam and is lined with red silk fabric. Possibly Ojibwe or Dakota in origin.

Dates

• Approximately 1860 - Approximately 1901 (Date range based on time Bishop Whipple spent in Minnesota working for various government commissions for Indian Affairs) (Creation)

Creation

• collected by: Whipple, Henry Benjamin

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 1508

Credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections, Gift of the Sibley House Association of the Minnesota Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 3 3/4 inches height
• 3 3/8 inches width
• 24 1/2 inches length (strap length)
• 9/16 inches width (strap width)
• 1/2 inch length (average fringe length)

Subjects

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