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THBRare 19th C. Winnebago Beaded Otter Pelt Midewiwin Bag
Lot 123d
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Native American / First Nations, Northern United States / Canada, Great Lakes Region & Midwest, Winnebago / Ojibwe, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. This is an exceptional pelt bag made from an entire otter - the neck is slit as the main opening for the bag with a cowrie shell drawstring - the tail and limbs decorated with cloth a beadwork. Whole animals were carefully skinned to retain their features and used to store precious healing and medicinal items such as tobacco. The healing society, Midewiwin, also used animal species to denote specific grades of initiation amongst members - the otter was one such animal. Men wore the bags with the head looped over a belt - the addition of bells and intricate beadwork added value to these already special pelts. In the secondary tail pocket, there is a vintage satchel of Bull Durham tobacco. Size: 55" L x 8" W (139.7 cm x 20.3 cm)
The otter was a revered animal that could pass from land to water with ease that was admired and considered a powerful spirit. These bags were popular amongst the northern Woodlands, Midwest, and Eastern Plains tribes, and especially with those affiliated with Midewiwin society. In Anishinaabe traditional beliefs, the ancestral trickster and hero, Nanabozo, is the founder of Midewiwin. He entrusted Otter with saving sacred teachings and tools to cure the sick, such as tobacco.
Provenance: private Alamo, California, USA collection, before 2000
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#179772Excellent and choice. Tiny hole in cloth, but otherwise intact. Pelt is excellent and beadwork is intact. Tobacco pouch in tail is a later addition.Condition
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