Octopus bag
Artist:
Tlingit
Date: late 19th or early 20th century
Medium: felt, cotton, yarn, glass beads
Classification: Containers
Credit Line: Gift of Sarah Ford Miller
Object number: 1951.31.23
DescriptionRed felt purse or shoulder bag. Upper half froms the body of the bag and the lower half is four sppendages of beaded fabric and yarn tassels. The backside of the bag is a crisp, plaid cotton of beige, magenta, and dark grey. Inside of bag is lined with coarse cotton fabric in a neutral color. Purse front is decorated with colored bead designs of foliage in yellow, light gray, green, light blue and white. A continuous linear pattern in clear beads connects the individual leaf images with a vein-like design. This configuration is circular at the top half of the purse surrounding a central green beaded frog image. On the bottom four "finger" appendages, the same beaded leaf and vein motif is embroidered with two leaves on each extention. The entire purse is outlined with black felt and white beads. The bag as a red and black strap of twisted wool yarn. The ends of the four extensions have two red and black wool tassels hanging off of it, connected by a thin thread and one bead.
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