purse, bag

purse, bag

purse, bag

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3: PERSONAL ARTIFACTS

PERSONAL GEAR:

Seminole

Multicolored rectangular bag with drawstring closure at top

Multicolored rectangular bag with drawstring closure at top. Flat base constructed of palmetto bark fiber. Bottom two inches of sides are straight on the short sides and slightly bowed out on the long sides, rigid, and constructed of open coiled sweetgrass stitched together. The coils are sewn together with decorative stitching that creates continuous vertical lines about 1” apart up the sides of the bag with short, upright-pointing diagonal lines (about 3/8” long) that come off to the left of the vertical lines from the bottom to the top of the coils (about 1/4” in diameter). Each stitch catches a few fibers of the next coil above. The bottom four coils are stitched in black, the next four in dark pink, and the top four in green. The sweetgrass coils are laced to a palmetto fiber top with hide spaced about 1” apart. The palmetto bark fiber top is about 8 1/2” tall and is constructed of five pieces of various sizes laced together with hide with vertical seams. The hide stitches are diagonal (bottom left to top right) and are about 1” apart. Approximately 1” from the top of the bag two hide draw strings are threaded through two parallel sets of punched holes, made one on top of the other spaced about 1/4” apart, one draw string through each set of holes. The ends of the bottom drawstring angle about 9 1/2” and are knotted together about 5” from the top again about 1/2” from the bottom. The ends of the top draw string dangle about 11” and are knotted together at 5 1/2” from the top and again about 1 1/2” from the end. The bag is lined with mustard pink cotton or cotton blend fabric, folded over the top of the palmetto bark fiber to make a top edge and machine stitched with the raw edge folded under, 1/4” from the top. The lining fabric is stitched together vertically in one location with the same lacing that joins two palmetto bark fiber sections. May have been intended use as a purse

created for sale to tourists, outsiders /
decorative /
personal adornment

10” W

9 3/4” H

7”D

1951 1955 own/col

fiber(palmetto bark) fiber(sweetgrass) hide(buckskin) fiber (cotton or cotton blend)

coiled sewn laced

Seminole

V GOOD

Davis, Hilda J. -donation

Davis, Hilda J. anthropological/ethnological
field

1984-06-0012

purse, bag

FL

USA

NA

purse, bag

2009 RECAT: Jodine Perkins

2009 RECAT: Object name changed form purse, basketry to more generic bag. No documentation doc file 1984-06 supports specific purpose as a purse, although it may have been. This item was just identified as a basket in the original inventory supplied by the donor

2009 RECAT: Mowat 1992. p 9 (see 1984-06-0001) 1984-06-DI

Indiana University/Mathers Museum