Hunting bag

Description

Model hunting bag, of netted babiche with tanned caribou side sections and upper edge, decorated with horizontal bands of red and blue pigment, and skin thongs ornamented with blue and yellow quill wrapping and red and blue wool tassels: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Tłı̨chǫ, c. 1862

Museum reference

A.848.21

Collection

Americas

Object name

Hunting bag

Production information

Unknown
Northwest Territories, Canada, North America

Date

c. 1862

Style / Culture

Tłı̨chǫ
Athapaskan

Materials

Babiche, Caribou skin, Porcupine quill, Wool

Physical description

Netted babiche hunting bag with tanned caribou skin side sections and upper edge; decorated with horizontal bands of red and blue pigment, and skin thongs ornamented with blue and yellow quill wrapping and red and blue wool tassels; top edge is worked with red, blue, purple and white porcupine quills, with babiche loops, painted with red pigment, 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

national museum of scotland »
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world cultures, living lands