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E1082-0 - Tobacco PouchBack

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Description

A pouch made of caribou skin. The decoration is made using pieces of white haired caribou skin and snippets of red and dark blue wool cloth. Around the bottom of the bag is a fringe of white haired skin strips that have been tipped with dark haired pieces of fur, possibly wolverine fur. Pouches of this type were commonly used to hold tobacco.

Information from the Smithsonian

FROM CARD: "ILLUS.: THE SPIRIT SINGS CATALOGUE, GLENBOW-ALBERTA INST., 1987, #A73, P.127."

  • Collection: Macfarlane Collection
  • Catalogue Number: E1082-0
  • Object Type: pouch
  • Materials: skin, sinew, wool
  • Manufacturing Techniques: cutting, sewing, scraping
  • Tags: container

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