Bag

Object/Artifact

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Swedish American Museum

Copyright: None; Origformat: Artifact

Copyright: None; Origformat: Artifact

Name/Title

Bag

Entry/Object ID

2005.78.5

Description

Brown leather bag. The bag is decorated with two vertical stripes of red felt, a horizontal stripe of red felt, and a horizontal stripe of green felt. Within the horizontal stripe of red felt, there's a horizontal line of yellow felt with attached yellow triangles and a thin green line of horizontal felt. In addition, the bag is held together with a thin brown braided string that's made of straw and at each end of the string, blue, yellow, and red yarn hangs loosely.

Acquisition

Accession

2005.78

Source or Donor

Jacobson, Selma & Hanna

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Selma & Hanna Jacobson

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Region

Sápmi, Northern Europe

Continent

Europe

Culture/Tribe

Sámi

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Transcription

Signed Flag: No

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Bags, Indigenous peoples

Search Terms

Leather, Bags, Sami

Dimensions

Height

10 in

Width

5-3/4 in

Depth

1-1/2 in

Material

Leather