Ojibwe bandolier bag

Titles: Ojibwe bandolier bag (Supplied title)

Description: Ojibwe bandolier bag with spot-stitched front pocket decorated with multi-colored glass seed beads in curvilinear floral designs on a white bead background. Strap is bound with brown wool tape and pocket panel with light tan ribbon. Pocket panel binding has spot-stitched blue bead zigzag design. Bag fringe is made of threaded blue glass beads with orange and blue wool tassels.

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: 1496

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

• 38 1/2 inches length (bag overall length, including binding extensions)
• 4 5/8 inches width (strap at widest)
• 11 3/4 inches width (pocket panel)
• 11 3/8 inches height (pocket panel)
• 5 5/8 inches height (area above pocket panel)
• 9 3/4 inches width (pocket opening)
• 4 inches length (average fringe length)

Subjects

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