Accession No
TEMP.03314
Description
Small hide tinder pouch, the surface covered with layer of red brown ochre pigment. Contains a bound bundle of fragments of inner bark, bound with a strip of hide embedded in yellow ochre. Bark used for tinder. The heavy use of ochre suggests it was used in ceremony.
Place
Americas; North America; ?Canada
Period
Source
?Rymill, Robert [?collector]; ?Clarke, Louis Colvile Gray [?monetary donor]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
TEMP.03314
Cultural Affliation
Plains
Material
Hide; Pigment; Ochre; Wood
Local Term
Measurements
105mm
Events
Context (Production / use)
The bark used as tinder. The heavy use of ochre suggests the pouch was probably used in ceremony
Event Date 23/1/2025
Author: Rachel Hand
Description (Physical description)
Small hide tinder pouch, the surface covered with layer of red brown ochre pigment. Contains a bound bundle of fragments of inner bark, bound with a strip of hide embedded in yellow ochre.
Event Date 23/1/2025
Author: Rachel Hand
Context (Found together / assemblage)
Found undocumented with headdress 1930.727 by Alison Brown, 18 August 1997.
It remains unclear if this was due to a direct association with the headdress, the Rymill collection or a was simply due to historic storage contraints, so the pouch has now been assigned a temp number, TEMP.03314.
Event Date 23/1/2025
Author: Rachel Hand
Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2025.6147 | Freezing
Event Date 18/2/2025
Author: Kirsty Kernohan
FM:323522
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