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- Title
Les sacs hurons-wendats avant 1850 : une coupe unique.
- Authors
Stolle, Nikolaus
- Abstract
Pouches and bags were made to store personal belongings for everyday and ritual purposes throughout eastern North America. Early accounts from the 17th century mention containers woven of plant fibers and bags using the skin of entire mammals. The oldest, preserved and documented pouches made of shaped leather, found in private and public Euroamerican collections, date back to the second half of the 18th century. Unfortunately, these examples have not been studied very well. At best, the pouches have been depicted in catalogs and attributed without providing proper documentation, only casual mention in scientific discourses, which focus on much later dates. Moreover, the collection histories, types of construction and materials, functions, and most important the identification of regional and tribal variations, women's artistic styles and observed changes over time remain poorly understood. The research of this paper has answered some of these questions for a group of pouches stylistically closely related, that are made of shaped leather, date prior to 1850, and are attributed to the Huron-Wendat.
- Subjects
QUEBEC (Province); ANIMAL skin containers; NATIVE American leatherwork; WYANDOT (North American people); NATIVE American women artisans; NATIVE American embroidery; NATIVE Americans; FIRST Nations of Canada; HISTORY; SOCIAL life &; customs of Native Americans; MATERIAL culture
- Publication
Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec, 2014, Vol 44, Issue 2/3, p79
- ISSN
0318-4137
- Publication type
Conference Paper
- DOI
10.7202/1030970ar