Small Beaded Purse
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 Aug 1934
name: label: Donor Name
content: Miss Florence C. Morse
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Soft, tanned buckskin; both sides covered with lavender, blue, and white beads."
label: Notes
content: This type of bag is called a puzzle bag or puzzle pouch. For images of others see: Biron, Gerry. "Puzzle Pouches." Historic Iroquois And Wabanaki Beadwork, October 20, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20211025190000/https://iroquoisbeadwork.blogspot.com/2013/10/puzzle-pouches.htmll . Prindle, Tara. "Native American Leather Bags and Pouches." NativeTech: Native American Technology & Art. Accessed March 28, 2023. https://www.nativetech.org/clothing/pouch/puzzlepouch/index.html. The Canadian Canoe Museum also has a video on how to open these bags: https://youtu.be/jJ4hcZXMnMU
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Mar 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oklahoma / Indian Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Osage (Wazhazhe)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 130527
label: USNM Number
content: E367866-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag