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Detail of Bag

This bag is a large heavily beaded bag with a slit at the top. It has a beaded strap worn diagonally over the shoulder, thus resting the bag at hip…

Yvonne Walker-Keshick, Birchbark and Sweetgrass Quill Box, Morgann Brafford
Jessica Tourtillott, Creation - 1994

Medium-sized quill box made with porcupine quills, birch bark, and sweet grass.

Birch Bark Box, Acquired in 1919

Box is rectangular in shape; 11 inches x 16 1/5 inches x 4 1/2 inches deep; painted birch bark trim around the top and sides; black ash splint…

Bandolier, Chippewa, Great Lakes

This bag is a large heavily beaded bag with a slit at the top. It has a beaded strap worn diagonally over the shoulder, thus resting the bag at hip…

Yvonne Walker-Keshick, Women's Journey, Creation - 1994

The lid of the quill box with four panels which describes the indigenous woman's journey through life

Yvonne Walker-Keshick, Medicine Wheel, Morgann Brafford
Jessica Tourtillott, Creation - 1994

A small strip of multicolored stripes near the lead of the quill box that symbolizes the medicine wheel

Animal Iconography

Human Iconography

Drum Bottom

Bandolier Bag