18th Century Material Culture

The Native Americans

Bags & Pouches

Bags / Pouches

Northeastern Native American Pouch from New England

Late 17th to Mid 18th Century
(Peabody Essex Museum)

Northeastern Native American Pouch from New England

Late 17th to Mid 18th Century
(Peabody Essex Museum)

Northeastern Native American Pouch from New England

Late 17th to Mid 18th Century
(Peabody Essex Museum)

Northeastern Native American Pouch from New England

Late 17th to Mid 18th Century
(Peabody Essex Museum)

Cree Bag of Moose, Porcupine and Trade Wool c. 1750 - 1775

Collected by George Holt of the Hudson Bay Co. between 1768 & 1771
(Alexander Gallery - Splendid Heritage)

Northeast Great Lakes Bag (Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa or Ottawa)

c. 1750 - 1770
(Alexander Gallery - Splendid Heritage)

Tribe of the Ottawa - (Odawa) Bag

c. 1775 - 1800
(Alexander Gallery - Splendid Heritage)

Tribe of the Ottawa - (Odawa) Bag

c. 1775 - 1800
(Alexander Gallery - Splendid Heritage)

Great Lakes - Eastern Great Lakes Bag, Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa or Ottawa

c. 1775 - 1800
(Warnock Collection - Splendid Heritage)

Iroquois or Algonquian Wampum Bead Bag

18th Century
(The British Museum)

Pouch or Bag Fingerwoven of Wool & Beads

From the Studio of the Artist, Benjamin West, and Depicted in The Death of General Wolfe
c. 1750 - 1770
(The British Museum)

Pouch or Bag Fingerwoven of Wool & Beads

From the Studio of the Artist, Benjamin West, and Depicted in The Death of General Wolfe
c. 1750 - 1770
(The British Museum)

Pouch or Bag Fingerwoven of Wool & Beads

From the Studio of the Artist, Benjamin West, and Depicted in The Death of General Wolfe
c. 1750 - 1770
(The British Museum)

Pouch or Bag Fingerwoven of Wool & Beads

From the Studio of the Artist, Benjamin West, and Depicted in The Death of General Wolfe
c. 1750 - 1770
(The British Museum)

The Death of General Wolfe

by Benjamin West 1770
(National Gallery of Canada)

Eastern Woodlands Iroquois or Anishinaabe Pouch

c. 1775 - 1825
(McCord Museum)

Eastern Woodlands Iroquois or Anishinaabe Pouch

c. 1775 - 1825
(McCord Museum)

Eastern Woodlands Iroquois or Anishinaabe Pouch

c. 1775 - 1825
(McCord Museum)

Eastern Woodlands Knife & Sheath, Trade Silver Ear Pendants, & Ottowa Bag
Collected & Worn by Lieutenant, Sir John Caldwell, Ocer of H.M. 8th Regiment of Foot c. 1774 - 1780
(Canadian Museum of History - Speyer Collection)

Lieutenant, Sir John Caldwell, H.M. 8th Regiment of Foot in Indian Dress, Assigned to Niagara & Detroit 1774 - 1780
c. 1780
(Liverpool Museum of England)

Eastern Woodlands Pouch

Collected by Lieutenant, Sir John Caldwell, Ocer of H.M. 8th Regiment of Foot c. 1780
(Canadian Museum of History - Speyer Collection)

Eastern Woodlands Pouch

Collected by Lieutenant, Sir John Caldwell, Ocer of H.M. 8th Regiment of Foot c. 1780
(Canadian Museum of History - Speyer Collection)

Eastern Woodlands Ottowa Bag

18th Century
(Canadian Museum of History - Speyer Collection)

Captain Bulls War Party, Recreated

Eastern Woodlands Ojibwa / Anishnaabe Pouch

Collected by Lieutenant, Sir John Caldwell, Ocer of H.M. 8th Regiment of Foot c. 1780
(Canadian Museum of History - Speyer Collection)

Native American Beadwork Bag from the Leverian Museum Owned by Sir Ashton Lever (1729 - 1788)
In an Album of 40 Watercolors Drawn by Sarah Stone c. 1784
(The British Museum)

Native American Beadwork Bag from the Leverian Museum Owned by Sir Ashton Lever (1729 - 1788)
In an Album of 40 Watercolors Drawn by Sarah Stone c. 1784
(The British Museum)

Native American Beadwork Bag from the Leverian Museum Owned by Sir Ashton Lever (1729 - 1788)
In an Album of 40 Watercolors Drawn by Sarah Stone c. 1784
(The British Museum)

Native American Beadwork Bag from the Leverian Museum Owned by Sir Ashton Lever (1729 - 1788)
In an Album of 40 Watercolors Drawn by Sarah Stone c. 1784
(The British Museum)

Native American Beadwork Bag from the Leverian Museum Owned by Sir Ashton Lever (1729 - 1788)
In an Album of 40 Watercolors Drawn by Sarah Stone c. 1784
(The British Museum)

Native American Beadwork Bag from the Leverian Museum Owned by Sir Ashton Lever (1729 - 1788)
In an Album of 40 Watercolors Drawn by Sarah Stone c. 1784
(The British Museum)

Native American Beadwork Bag from the Leverian Museum Owned by Sir Ashton Lever (1729 - 1788)
In an Album of 40 Watercolors Drawn by Sarah Stone c. 1784
(The British Museum)

Eastern Woodlands - Great Lakes Bag, Possibly Ojibwa or Chippewa

Late 18th - Early 19th Century
(Warnock Collection - Splendid Heritage)

Whole Skin
Animal Bags

Tishcohan, Delaware of the Leni-Lenape

by Gustavus Hesselius, 1735
(Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia)

Lapowinska Delaware of the Leni-Lenape

by Gustavus Hesselius, 1735
(Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia)

Lieutenant, Sir John Caldwell, H.M. 8th Regiment of Foot in Indian Dress, Assigned to Niagara & Detroit 1774 - 1780
Detail of a Skunk Bag c. 1780
(Liverpool Museum of England)

Whole Skin Animal Bag by Alexandre De Batz 1735

(Private Collection)

Unknown - Information Sought

Ojibwa Full Otter Skin Tobacco Bag

c. 1775
(Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, Massachusetts)

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