Twined Bag - $Sold
Open twined bag done with hemp cordage. Approx. 9" wide by 8 1/2 " deep. Fabric and bags done by this method were very common. The weave techniques and patterns are known by the impressions left on pottery shards from as early as 1000 A.D. and continuing into the 20th century. Some bags were done with figures woven in and some were "plainer". Used for storage of all kinds and for washing and hulling corn the bags are tough and versatile coming in a range of sizes from 3 or 4 inches up to several feet. This bag was woven from bottom to top as the warps hang from a stick, essentially woven "upside down" as were all the bags I have seen in collections. SOLD

Twined Bag - $300.00
A simple twined bag of a type used for storage and for hulling corn. 11"W by 9.5"H with a braided opening edge. The edges on these bags were usually very substantial and often braided like this one or had the warp strands gathered in bunches and wrapped. Sometimes dyed strands were included to create stripes and often patterns or "texture" were created by manipulating the warps strands as in this bag.

"Panel Bag" - $1300.00
From an original in the American Museum of Natural History in NYC, this bag is made using hemp cordage and wool yarn. Woven with a method called twining. Bag is Approx 17"W by 14"H. Used for storage and as medicine bags these "panel" bags begin to show up in collections around the end of the 1800's and disappear around 1930. The techniques and various warp arrangements show up in a very few remnants of fabric and as impressions on pottery sherds from the Mississipian culture (600AD to 1600AD). Other style bags using the same techniques but less use of figures for decoration begin to show up as collected in the second half of the 1700's. Like on fingerwoven bags, the designs are almost always different on each side of the bag.

- $SOLD
A twined panel bag from the Great Lakes. This bag is from the Chandler-Porht collection at the Detroit Institute of Art. Thunderbirds and underwater panthers are commonly seen on these bags along with stylized symbols representing them and other spirit beings. SOLD

Twined Bag - $600.00
This bag is from an Ottawa bag that is in the Detroit Institute of Art collection. It has been shown in several publications including David Penney's "Great Lakes Indian Art". This bag is woven using ehmp and wool yarn. It is somewhat unusual and that it as some painted elements also. Bag is 12" wide by 10.5" deep.