An Ojibwa bandolier bag Northeast North America red trade cloth

An Ojibwa bandolier bag

Northeast North America

red trade cloth, cloth, coloured glass beads, with loom woven geometric foliate and thunderbird designs and with sewn zig-zag and 'otter tail' borders, the base with seven beaded tabs with fourteen beaded wool tassels, circa 1880,

102cm long.

Provenance

Sonia and Peter Cashman, UK.

Michael G. Johnson Collection, from the above May 2002.

Literature

Michael G. Johnson. Ojibwa, People of Forests and Prairies, 2016, p.115.