Pouch

National Museum of Natural History

E358319-0

From card: "Two head skins of a mallard duck, bill attached. The top has open beadwork design, a star [the sun?] and two birds. Undoubtedly commercial trade article."Compare to Tlingit wall pocket Fig. 1.7, p. 48 in Smetzer, Megan A. 2021. Painful Beauty : Tlingit Women, Beadwork, and the Art of Resilience. Seattle: Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Coast Art, Burke Museum : University of Washington Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/85691/ .


  • Type of Item wall pocket
  • Culture Northwest Coast Indian, Northeast Indian

  • Received from Victor J. Evans

  • Made in USA, Canada
  • Collected in USA, Canada

  • Acquisition Date on March 20, 1931

  • Accession Number 113605