Beaded Tobacco Pouch
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Oct 1968
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mr. Province M. Henry
notes: label: Notes
content: Collector's notes, written on tag attached to object: (pouch), E410172-(jacket), and... (bandolier band) Paiwan tribe, Pingtung Hsien, Nai Shitosha (village) area, Taiwan (SW Formosa). Beaded tobacco pouch, red wool base applique jacket and bandolier band. All of these items are undoubtedly of ceremonial type, hence well preserved. They are most likely to have been reserved for use by the tribla nobility-which only existed among the people of the Paiwan group. The jacket and bandolier have slightly stylized designs of the 100 pacer snakeskin, human heads, and possibly comb crest designs in 6 colors of applique work on red Chinese trade wool base. The beaded pouch is worked in at least 7 bead colors on similar cloth. The meiji silver 10 sen coin on the pouch is dated 1881...However, we estimate the period of these three pieces to fall sometime during the early part of the 20th century.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Nov 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: South, Taiwan, China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Paiwan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 281393
label: USNM Number
content: E410174-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tobacco Bag