Beaded bag and strap

Titles: Beaded bag and strap (Supplied title)

Description: Round leather bag with loom-woven strap in geometric design. Bag features zigzag glass seed bead border and two-bead edging at opening. 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: 1503

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 inches diameter
• 23 1/4 inches length (strap length)
• 1 inch length (fringe length)

Subjects

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