Iroquois beaded cotton and velvet bag

Titles: Iroquois beaded cotton and velvet bag (Supplied title)

Description: An Iroquois black velvet pouch lined with cotton cloth, circa the mid-19th century. The pouch is beaded on either side with identical floral motifs that incorporate both glass seed beads and pony beads. The top edge has a flap on either side and is trimmed with light green satin. Loops of white beads are strung as fringe at the seams. The bag was donated by Emily Barr whose grandmother, Aurelia Blake, reported that her father bought it from a Dakota woman in 1856. However, the bag is Iroquois, circa the late 19th century.

Dates

• 1870 - 1890 (Date range represents the period when Iroquois bags like this one were being made around the Niagara Falls vicinity.) (Creation)
• Approximately 1856 (Content)

Creation

• owned/used by: Blake, Aurelia
• owned/used by: Barr, Emily Blake

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 1984.44.1

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 5 inches height
• 5 1/4 inches width

Subjects

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