Octopus bag
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Plains Cree (Prairie Cree)
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by George Heye from an unknown source in London, England, in 1937.
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- Catalog Number
- 19/5705
- Barcode
- 195705.000
- Object Type
- Bags/Pouches (and parts)
- Object Name
- Octopus bag
- Media/Materials
- Wool cloth, silk ribbon, glass bead/beads, wool yarn
- Techniques
- Sewn, overlay beadwork, strung, tasseled, braided
- Place
- Alberta or Saskatchewan; Canada (inferred)
- See related items
- Plains Cree (Prairie Cree)
- Bags/Pouches (and parts)
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_209182
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6c8170fbc-3318-490f-8097-5afb107c12e0
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