Ornamented Otter Skin Pouch
date: label: Accession Date
content: 31 Dec 1867
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department Of War
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "*SEE SIMILAR POUCH 8658, LABELED SIOUX?"
label: Notes
content: Entered in the orginal ledger catalog as from the War Department with the location given as Missouri R. Valley. The bag is very similar to tobacco pouches shown in drawings by James Otto Lewis of Ojibwa men during the 1826 Treaty of Fond du Lac. Thomas McKenney, who assembled the War Dept collection, acquired other items during that council meeting, and this could possibly have been acquired at that time. Bags of this form were later used by the Midewiwin Society, but during the 1820s were in more general use as tobacco bags, worn with the head looped over a man's belt. Length 48".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Sep 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Missouri River, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 67A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2456-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag