Hunting Pouch - Octopus Bag
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Dec 1883
label: Collection Date
content: August 30, 1883
name: label: Collector
content: James G. Swan
label: Donor Name
content: James G. Swan
notes: label: Notes
content: OCTOPUS BAG; FLORAL BEADWORK. FROM JAMES G. SWAN ORIGINAL TAG WITH ARTIFACT: "NO. 201 HAIDA INDIANS HUNTING POUCH. KULTL GEAR. SITKA INDIAN MANUFACTURE. SKIDEGATE, B.C. AUG. 30, 1883, JAMES G. SWAN, $1."
label: Notes
content: Linda Wynne, Florence Sheakley, Alan Zuboff, Virginia Oliver, and Ruth Demmert made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This is an octopus bag, specifically used for hunting because of the strap. Florence noted that she made a bag similar to this one that took her over a month to complete, and wasn't as busy as this one with regards to the beadwork design. The bag has some large, size 10 beads, which were produced later on, and don't have the same good detail as smaller beads. Virginia commented that someone may have added beads to this bag after it was created in order to sell it. The button on this object could be a brass button taken from a military coat. This bag has double toes and was made with two needles, whereas beaders today usually use only one needle.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Mar 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Skidegate, Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii) / Graham Island, British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit, Sitka
label: Culture
content: Haida
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 013804
label: USNM Number
content: E89196-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag