Shoulder bag (missing strap)

Unknown Artist

ca. 1800

Shoulder bag (missing strap) by Unknown Artist

Medium

Tanned leather, porcupine quills, dye, glass beads, silk ribbon, metal cones, and deer hair

Dimensions

12 × 9 in. (30.5 × 22.9 cm)

Classification

Bag

Culture

Anishinaabe, possibly Mississauga Ojibwa, Native American

Department

The American Wing

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2019

Accession Number

2019.456.3

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