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.
