POUCH

Object/Artifact

-

St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

POUCH

Entry/Object ID

143/3048

Description

Tobacco pouch made from buffalo calf

Context

THIS ITEM WAS USED BY THE ASSINABOINE CHIEF, "RED STONE". HE WAS HEAD CHIEF OF THE ASSINABOINE AND WAS PRESENTED BY HIM TO INDIAN AGENT ALDERSON IN MARCH OF 1876. THE ASSINABOINE ARE A BRANCH OF THE SIOUX TRIBE. THE NAME OF THIS POUCH IS "Chan Co' zu Ha".

Collection

NATIVE AMERICAN

Made/Created

Date made

1876

Place

Continent

North America

Notes

1876 or before

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Region

Great Plains

Continent

North America

Culture/Tribe

Assiniboine
Native American

Notes

Filed under Miscellaneous in George index. Affiliation determined through letters with Vern Thornburgh

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Pouch

Nomenclature Class

Containers

Nomenclature Category

Category 07: Distribution & Transportation Objects

Parts

Count

1

Material

BUFFALO CALF

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Red Stone

Notes

https://amertribes.proboards.com/thread/3565/red-stone-assiniboine

Provenance

Notes

BEATRICE CREAMERY CO.; LINCOLN, NEB. VERN THORNBURGH HLG LEDGER VOL. II, p. 254L, ONLY ITEM LETTER DATED 11/5/1915 ALSO ON HLG LEDGER VOL. II, p. 254H AND 254H'.