Indian Pouch
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Jan 1867
name: label: Donor Name
content: John Varden
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "5,425 OF SKIN; DEC. QUILLWORK; 10 1/2" X 7 1/4". INVENTORIED 1978. RETURNED 10/6/65. THESE POUCHES MAY BE THE FOLLOWING LISTED IN THE CATALOG OF JOHN VARDEN'S WASHINGTON MUSEUM (ORIGINAL IN SMITHSONIAN ARCHIVES): "A STONE PIPE AND POUCH FROM THE ROCKEY MOUNTAINS." OBTAINED BY VARDEN IN ST. LOUIS, AUGUST 1830, FROM J. DAUBERMAN. "CLOTH BAG FINELY WORKED WITH BEADS BY THE INDIANS OF THE ROCKEY MOUNTAINS", OBTAINED BY VARDEN FROM HUGH SWEENEY IN JUNE, 1840. LOAN: DENVER MUSEUM 3/15/65."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 6, p. 52 in Kasprycki, Sylvia S., 2015, "Quilled Trapezoidal Pouches from the Western Great Lakes Region," American Indian Art Magazine, 40(4):48-63. Object is described pp. 52-53 of article. Identified there as a trapezoidal pouch; blackened buckskin, porcupine quills; 25.6 cm long, 11.8 - 18.7 cm wide. Wavy lines in simple quill linework adorn the front part of the pouch, which also has a false flap and two panels of patterned quillwork bands featuring serrated diagonal bars. Catalogue ledger book labels this as possibly Missouri River Valley. It also has had a Sioux attribution, source unknown (Sioux is written on the back of the bag; if Sioux it would likely be Santee Dakota per Sylvia Kasprycki). Kasprycki notes on p. 53 of her article that it resembles a bag from the collection of Milford G. Chandler and Richard A. Pohrt illustrated in Flint Institute of Arts. 1973. The Art of the Great Lakes Indians. [Flint, Mich.]: [Flint Institute of Arts]:8, No. 17. This pouch is attributed to the Chippewa of the "latter half of the 18th century". "This identification, provided by two longtime collectors who not only possessed vast knowledge but also maintained close ties to Native artists and communities (Penney 1992), still serves as an often-quoted reference point today."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Missouri River, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Indian
label: Culture
content: Plains Indian (?)
label: Culture
content: Great Lakes Indian (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 68A00002
label: USNM Number
content: E5425-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Object
content: 26.7 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 18.41 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 25.6 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 18.7 cm