The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Bandolier (Shoulder) Bag
1880s?
Average: 107.3 x 33 cm (42 1/4 x 13 in.)
Location: not on view
Description
Inspired perhaps by British ammunition pouches, bandolier bags evolved from smaller native bags to become one of the flashiest, most important items of Woodlands formal attire during the 1800s. Europeans introduced floral motifs to Woodlands imagery, but artists’ enthusiastic response suggests the motifs struck a chord in native thought, which holds plants to be animate and powerful. This example features blueberries, literally “soul food” that refreshes the spirit of the living and the dead, and alludes to new seasonal growth.- (Eleanor Tulman Hancock, New York).
- Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review for 1982." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 1 (1983) p. 53, Cat. No. 77 www.jstor.org
- Gallery 231 - Native North American Textile Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27, 2018-August 26, 2019).Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 7-May 30, 2010).The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1982.61