Ojibwe bandolier bag

Titles: Ojibwe bandolier bag (Supplied title)

Description: Ojibwe bandolier bag with back pocket, spot-stitch decorated with multicolored glass seed beads in a curvilinear floral design on a translucent bead background. Bag is bound with green ribbon and features netted thread fringe made of blue and yellow glass beads with red wool tassels.This bag employs similar bead color combinations and motifs to those found in bandolier bag #1520 that was made for Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple by Sophia Smith. Sophia was a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and wife to Episcopal Lay Minister Fred Smith.

Dates

• Approximately 1890 - Approximately 1901 (Creation)

Creation

• made by (possibly): Smith, Sophia
• collected by: Whipple, Henry Benjamin

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 1498

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

• 45 1/4 inches length (bag overall length, including binding extensions)
• 5 5/8 inches width (strap at widest)
• 18 3/4 inches width (pocket panel)
• 15 3/4 inches height (pocket panel)
• 6 1/2 inches width (pocket opening)
• 2 3/4 inches length (average fringe length)

Subjects

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