pocket;watch pocket;pocket
Object
- Accession Number
- OBJ_0026689
- Culture
- Athapaskan
- Date
- 1850 – 1916
- Materials and Techniques
- hide
- seed
- front beaded in floral design
- Place
- Mackenzie River, Western Subarctic
- Canada
- North America
- Description
- Traditional materials, combined with introduced floral designs, made watch pockets popular with the white immigrant population in the 19th century as well as with visitors, who were pleased to be able to take home an example of Native American craft work.
Western Sub-Arctic region, Mackenzie River-style watch pocket which was acquired by Hon. Edgar Dewdney, between 1859 - 1916. Dewdney became Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. The buckskin pocket is decorated with glass beads. Athabaskan-speaking peoples.
Donated to RAMM in 1920 by his wife Blanche Elizabeth. Artefact is described by the donor as a ‘money bag’.
(Ref: Blanche Elizabeth Dewdney’s letters to curator Mr Rowley).
This object is on display at RAMM in the World Cultures gallery. - Description
- Traditional materials, combined with introduced floral designs, made watch pockets popular with the white immigrant population in the 19th century as well as with visitors, who were pleased to be able to take home an example of Native American craft work.
Western Sub-Arctic region, Mackenzie River-style watch pocket which was acquired by Hon. Edgar Dewdney, between 1859 - 1916. Dewdney became Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. The buckskin pocket is decorated with glass beads. Athabaskan-speaking peoples.
Donated to RAMM in 1920 by his wife Blanche Elizabeth. Artefact is described by the donor as a ‘money bag’.
(Ref: Blanche Elizabeth Dewdney’s letters to curator Mr Rowley).
This object is on display at RAMM in the World Cultures gallery. - See Elsewhere
- MDS record link
- Record Rights
- Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
- CC 0
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