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An Indian tobacco pouch of leather, the lower part ornamented with an embroidery of porcupine Quills

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

October 1782

Primary Source Reference:

Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 67v

Additional Source Text:

"About three inches high, representing on each Side two black hunting Shirts edged with yellow on a red ground, and trimmed at bottom with a row of tassells of red hair cased with tin."

Notes:

See the entry "Two very handsomely ornamented Tobacco pouches, ornamented with Porcupine Quills, and Tin, &c. Of the Saux Tribe" for more information about these pouches.

The donor, James Wilkinson (1757-1825), was an American soldier and statesman who was associated with several scandals and controversies.