Cloth Bag - Octopus Bag
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Nov 1935
name: label: Collector
content: Gov Mctavish
label: Collector
content: R. R. Sutherland
label: Donor Name
content: Mary M. Walcott
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "WHITE CANVAS-LIKE CLOTH LINED WITH SATIN AND COVERED WITH BLACK FELT ON WHICH ARE EMBROIDERED FLORAL DESIGNS IN SMALL PORCELAIN AND GLASS BEADS. FRINGED. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 159. - IDENTIFIED THERE AS ATHABASKAN?" ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM THE FAR NORTH CATALOG: "OCTOPUS BAG, TRADE FELT, COTTON BACKING, CALICO LINING, POLYCHROME TRADE BEADS, YARNS AND THREAD. ...BAGS SUCH AS THIS ... WERE PROBABLY PRODUCED BY THE ATHABASKAN INDIANS ALTHOUGH THEY WERE OFTEN COLLECTED AMONG THE COASTAL INDIANS SUCH AS THE TLINGIT, WHO PRIZED THEM HIGHLY.
label: Notes
content: Accession record identifies as Cree or Chippewa. Current catalogue card lists culture as Ojibwa, and notes that bag has been attributed as Athapaskan. See accession history for further provenance information.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Sep 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Assiniboine, Alberta (not certain), Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe) (?)
label: Culture
content: Cree (?)
label: Culture
content: Athabascan (Athabaskan) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 136756
label: USNM Number
content: E373747-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag