Beaded Cloth Bag, Possibly Seneca or Tuscarora

Description:

Beaded Cloth Bag, Possibly Seneca or Tuscarora, c. 1830, beaded on both sides with multicolored lattice designs, silk edging, 8 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.

Exhibitions: Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine, 2006; Memorial Hall Museum, Deerfield, Massachusetts, 2007; Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum, Warner, New Hampshire, 2008; The Institute for American Indian Studies, Washington, Connecticut, 2009.

Notes: This bag was also featured in the Made of Thunder, Made of Glass exhibition catalog, fig. 2; and p. 4 in the book A Cherished Curiosity: The Souvenir Beaded Bag in Historic Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Art, figures 3.19 and 3.30, pp. 61 and 62.
Estimate $800-1,200


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