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Description

This bag is made from skins from the heads of two or more grizzly bears, with a canvas bottom. It has a long handle made of walrus ivory attached with hide thongs to two ends of the opening. One side of the handle is decorated with two rows of incised circles, each with a dot at its centre. The other has a row of what appear to be caribou figures incised along the entire length of one edge of the handle, and below that row, on the other edge, are two similar representation, with a third figure that appears to be a human in the act of grabbing one of the caribou. Behind the human-like figure are six short lines that may represent footprints.

  • Collection: Cadzow Collection
  • Catalogue Number: 70989
  • Object Type: bag
  • Materials: bear skin, ivory, canvas
  • Manufacturing Techniques: scraping, sewing, drilling, engraving
  • Tags: container

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