Panel Bag
Northern Ontario or Manitoba
ca. 1850-70
wool, glass beads, silk ribbon, yarn tassels
Inventory # CW4314-67
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PROVENANCE
Collected by Dr, William Cowan, Factor, Chief Magistrate, and surgeon at the Red River Settlement from 1850 to 1856, when he left for Moose Factory on James Bay
Miss Cowan, Glasgow, Scotland (Cowan's sister)
William Cowan Finlay and Helen Finlay (daughter and son-in-law of Miss Cowan)
Phillips, London, England, December 4, 1999, lot 209
Donald Ellis Gallery, Dundas, Ontario
Private collection, Toronto, Ontario
RELATED EXAMPLE
Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Cat. No. 60-4586 - See: Duncan, Kate and Hail, Ruth. Out of the North: The Subarctic Collection of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology Brown University. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1989, pg. 184, pl. 47