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RARE & UNUSUAL EMBROIDERED MOOSE CALF POUCH

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:750.00 USD Estimated At:1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD
RARE & UNUSUAL EMBROIDERED MOOSE CALF POUCH
RARE & UNUSUAL EMBROIDERED MOOSE CALF POUCH. This early pouch, purported by the owner to have been originally Indian made at one of the missionaries around the Great Lakes and supposedly made on tanned, unborn moose calf hide. The work, done in silk or other cloth embroidery and needlework stitching of floral design with rearing lions on flap. The pouch with a cotton-cloth lined interior and originally trimmed in silk material. During the 18th century, some of the religious missionaries up and around the Great Lakes region taught the Indians how to use quillwork to design exquisitely decorated pieces on birch bark and hide. This may have been a product of that era. The pouch itself is of a velvety soft material, which we are unfamiliar with and which could possibly be as originally indicated; of unborn moose calf hide, but we can’t guarantee it. Appears to have considerable age, and a great look. Matted and framed in a contemporary glass shadow box. SIZE: (pouch only) approximately 15-1/2” high x 9” wide. CONDITION: Trimmed material with losses and much fraying. Much of the original embroidery work still intact, however scattered losses. Color reasonably bright, and the pouch itself with some soiling and imperfections. 4-55054 (1,500-2,500)