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tobacco pouch1927.1734 . 176341

« The Speck collection contains nine tobacco pouches. » Vanstone, James W. "The Speck Collection of Montagnais Material Culture from the Lower St. Lawrence Drainage, Quebec." Fieldiana. Anthropology. New Series, No. 5 (October 29, 1982), p.12. « The remaining seven tobacco pouches are rectangular in shape and close with semi-circular flaps. » Ibis « A small pouch made of mink skin with cotton lining is decorated on the flap with a cross in red and blue beads. On the sides and around the edge of the flap is a single row of beads of the same color (fig. 20c). » Vanstone, James W. "The Speck Collection of Montagnais Material Culture from the Lower St. Lawrence Drainage, Quebec." Fieldiana. Anthropology. New Series, No. 5 (October 29, 1982), p.13, fig 20c (p.48).

Culture
Ilnu, Montagnais and Innu
Material
mink skin and bead
Made in
Pekuakami, Lac Saint-Jean, Lake St. John, Labrador, Canada
Holding Institution
The Field Museum
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FanD2.103

One feather dyed red is in front in the first row with three feathers dyed blue behind it in the second row against a background of the main white feathers. Handle wrapped with woven copper fabric and a woven strip of cotton. Tassels of white feathers and fur attached to end of handle.

Culture
Blackfoot
Material
swan bird, blue jay feather, mink skin, metal, fibre, cotton fibre ? and dye
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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