Producer unknown to us
Awl pouch
Americas, North America, Great Plains
19th century
Leather, beadwork, tinplate, hair
Collection context unknown to us
Handed over to the museum by Museum für Vorgeschichte Halle/Saale in 1953
NAm 4681
This pouch was used to store sewing awls. It is made of one piece of leather with white, green, yellow, red, and light and dark blue beads embroidered into it all around. Three long leather fringes wrapped in red fibers are attached to the ends. At the bottom end are metal cones made from bent tinplate chewing tobacco cans with tufts of hair inserted.
This piece came to Leipzig from Museum für Vorgeschichte Halle/Saale in 1953 as part of the GDR’s museum profiling campaign.
Frank Usbeck