Skip to main content
Collections Menu
Culture

Bag

Date1900-1925
DimensionsOverall: 13 1/2 × 11 3/4 in. (34.3 × 29.8 cm)
Object numberT0396
Credit LineGift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw
Photograph by Richard Walker
Exhibition HistoryMuseum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, MA, December 6, 1994 - May 2, 1995.

"The Flag in American Indian Art," New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, August 30, 1997 - January 18, 1998; High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA. February 21, 1998 - June 13, 1998; Historical Society of Saginaw County, (Castle Museum), Saginaw, MI. August 1, 1998 - September 27, 1998; Houston Museum of Natural Science. October 1998 - March 1999; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE. July 3, 1999 - August 29, 1999; Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Mashantucket, CT. October 1999 - December 1999.
ProvenanceChester Dentan; Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
BibliographyBattle, Megan and Robert Mottley. "Old Glory: An Indian View." Colonial Homes, (December 1993): 42-45.

Vincent, Gilbert et al. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2000, p.181.

Fognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 204.
On View
Not on view
Cradle Model
Lakota (Teton Sioux)
1890-1910
Bag with powderhorn
Possibly Chipewyan-Metis or Slavey
c. 1865-1870
Leggings
Plateau Cree-Metis
c. 1860
Bag
Plateau
c. 1950
Bandolier Bag
Seminole
c. 1830
Bandolier Bag
Anishinaabe (Ojibwa)
c. 1860
Bag
Seneca (Haudenosaunee)
c. 1840-1860
Bag
Seneca (Haudenosaunee)
c. 1840-1860
Bag
Seneca (Haudenosaunee)
c. 1840-1860
Bag
Seneca (Haudenosaunee)
c. 1840-1860
Bag
Seneca (Haudenosaunee)
c. 1840-1860
Bag
Seneca (Haudenosaunee)
c. 1840-1860

5798 STATE HIGHWAY 80
COOPERSTOWN NY, 13326
607-547-1400

close

Subscribe to our mailing list

* indicates required