Cloth Bag, Beaded - Octopus Bag
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Sep 1932
label: Collection Date
content: 1853
name: label: Collector
content: Daniel L. Arnold
label: Donor Name
content: Miss Ida F. Arnold
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BEADED IN FLORAL DESIGN AND EXTENDED WITH 4 FLAPS, EACH FRINGED AND BEADED; OLD SPECIMEN." SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
label: Notes
content: APPARENTLY COLLECTED FROM AMONG IROQUOIS EXPATRIATES LIVING NEAR ST. MARY'S MISSION, MONTANA IN 1853 BY DANIEL LYMAN ARNOLD. ARNOLD WAS A MEMBER OF ISAAC INGALLS STEVENS' 1853-54 PACIFIC RAILROAD SURVEY. OBJECT IS AN OCTOPUS BAG AND IS PROBABLY NOT OF IROQUOIS MANUFACTURE. IT IS POSSIBLY OF CREE ORIGIN. A CONTEMPORARY DRAWING (IX C9-67) AT THE JESUIT MISSOURI PROVINCE ARCHIVES SHOWS THE FLATHEAD CHIEF AMBROSE WEARING A SIMILAR TABBED BAG. - STEVEN L. GRAFE 1997
label: Notes
content: In 2011 Dr. Sylvia Kasprycki examined the bag and said that it was not Iroquois style of manufacture.
label: Notes
content: Octopus bag with floral beadwork.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Mar 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: St. Mary's Mission Near, Ravalli County, Montana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) (?)
label: Culture
content: Cree (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 120983
label: USNM Number
content: E364570-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag