Hunting bag

Description

Model hunting bag, of netted babiche, decorated with horizontal bands of red pigment, skin thongs wrapped with yellow quills, and red wool tassels: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Fort Simpson, Tłı̨chǫ, c. 1860

Museum reference

A.558.45

Collection

Americas

Object name

Hunting bag, Model

Production information

Unknown
Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, Canada, North America

Date

c. 1860

Style / Culture

Tłı̨chǫ
Athapaskan

Materials

Babiche, Thong, Porcupine quill, Wool, Caribou skin

Physical description

Netted babiche bag decorated with horizontal bands of red pigment, skin thongs wrapped with yellow quills, and red wool tassels; upper edge of tanned caribou skin worked with red, blue and yellow porcupine quills, edge bound with red wool overstitching, with babiche loops for attaching a carrying strap.

Collection place(s)

Northwest Territories, Canada, North America

Associations

Hudson's Bay Company

Exhibitions

• Living Lands (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Dogrib: We live securely by the land (01 Oct 2006 - 14 Dec 2007)
  Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
  Carleton University Art Gallery

References

Dè T’a Hoti Ts’eeda: ‘We Live Securely by the Land’; An Exhibition of Dene material selected from the collections from National Museums Scotland. Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada 2006

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

On display

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