Otter skin tobacco pouch
- Made:
- 1851-1900 in United States
- maker:
- Sioux people
Otter skin tobacco pouch, whole pelt, dried, slit in throat forms aperture, brass bells tied to paws, said to be a Holy Otter Bag, Dakota Sioux(?), maker, U.S.A., 1851-1900
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A656763
- Materials:
- otter and brass, bells
- Measurements:
-
length 1210 mm
flat: width 275 mm
head: thickness 59 mm
- type:
- tobacco pouches
- credit:
- Palm, H.W.
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