Painted Tobacco Bag

description:

Red, blue and brown painted leather/skin bag with netted quillwork.

significance note:

A gift to Stephen Williams, from Arosen, Eunice Williams' Kanien'kehaka (Mohawk) husband.

references:

Reproduced in article by Suzanne Flynt titled, "Early Native American Collections in Deerfield," American Indian Art Magazine, Vol. 30, No.1, Winter 2004, p.58. Exhibited in "Remembering 1704: Context and Commemoration of the Deerfield Raid" Flynt Center, Historic Deerfield, Inc., February 2004 to May 2005. Included in the "Jamestown, Quebec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings" exhibition at Virginia Historical Society, 2007; Missouri Historical Society, 2007; Canadian Museum of the Civilization, 2008; Albuquerque Museum, 2009; International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2009.

provenance:

The heirs of Rev. Stephen Williams (1693-1782) donated the pouch to the Deerfield Academy Museum before 1800; transferred to PVMA 1877.

keywords:

Customs, Manners, Morals
Native Americans