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Bandolier72.104

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Culture
Delaware
Material
bead and cotton
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Black Pouch50.67.15

This dyed black deerskin pouch is decorated with a false flap, a modified "V" shaped line that is elaborated to seem like the opening of the bag. The edge of this "flap" is bordered with braided quill work in stripes of orange and blue, edged at the top and bottom of the border with thin white lines. A thin, undulating white line has been embroidered above this border. From the bottom of the border, enhancing this illusion of a flap, metal cones filled with reddish deer hair are suspended. Similar cones with deer hair are suspended from the bottom of the bag. The bottom half of the bag is embroidered with quills in a complex of motifs. Three double-curved forms or bifurcating lines are embroidered with thin lines or orange, blue and white. These forms "sprout" from a wider double band of orange and white braided quill work, elaborated with thin outlines in blue and white. The border or groundline for these sprouting forms is surrounded by an irregular, zig-zag outline in white with some blue at bottom. At the base of each of the five resulting points of the zig-zag are five circles, each composed of concentric rings made of quill embroidered lines of white, orange and blue. The ribbon strap of the pouch is now deteriorated, appearing to be maroon with yellowish stripes.

Culture
Delaware
Material
buckskin, porcupine quill, tin, deer hair, ribbon, glass bead and cloth
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Bowl50.67.161

Wooden bowl with schematic faces carved in relief on two vertical, stepped shaped, rim lugs, which are located opposite each other. The wood grain shows on the bowl along with some dark stains in the interior bottom. The brass is a Native repair. Wooden bowls with images generally were treasured and inherited, passed from generation to generation . Although the Delaware are often thought of as located in the eastern part of the North American continent after 1700 they are shown to have also migrated throughout Ohio and Indiana, as far north as Wisconsin, and south to Texas. Such bowls might have traveled with them. It is not known where Jarvis acquired this bowl.

Culture
Delaware and Iroquois
Material
wood and brass metal
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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