An Inuit woman's container and cover Western Arctic sealskin and coloured glass beads

An Inuit woman's container and cover

Western Arctic

sealskin and coloured glass beads, of globular form sewn in strips of natural and tanned skin, the shoulders previously with a handle and the cover with a radiating circle design with eight semi-circles to the outer edge, with written inventory number 77 CLA 353 : A to the container and 77 CLA 353 : b to the cover, late 19th century,

16.2cm high. (2)

Provenance

Native American Center for the Living Arts, Niagra Falls, N.Y.

A private collection, Canada.

cf. McCord Museum, Montreal, collection no. ME982X.187.1-2, for a similar later example. These containers were used to hold sewing equipment and other small articles.