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Octopus Bag

Cree or Cree-Metis
Southern Manitoba

ca. 1840

wool broadcloth, silk thread, glass beads, yarn

height: 22"

Inventory # CW3128a

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PROVENANCE

Private collection, London, United Kingdom

PUBLISHED

Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2004, pg. 41                             

RELATED EXAMPLES

For a closely related panel bag colleted by George Jehoshaphat Mountain, the Bishop of Quebec (1789-1863) on a canoe journey from Montreal to the Red River Settlement in 1837 - See: Phillips, London, July 1, 1996, lot 273

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