Bag, medicine

Description

Medicine bag of fetal caribou leg-skins with the hooves still attached, sewn with sinew, with a small black stone pipe bowl attached to the bag: North America, Canada, Nehaunay, or Kaska / Nahane

Museum reference

A.558.49

Collection

Americas

Object name

Bag, medicine

Production information

Canada, North America

Style / Culture

Nehaunay
Athapaskan
Kaska

Materials

Reindeer skin

Physical description

Reindeer skin

Associations

Hudson's Bay Company

References

Idiens, Dale, A catalogue of Northern Athapaskan Indian artefacts in the collection of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum Information Series, Art and Archaeology 3, March 1979

Listed on Yukon government 'Searching for Our Heritage' project website listing Yukon First Nations artefacts around the world: http://www.tc.gov.yk.ca/museum_resources.html