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From old exhibit label with card: "HUNTING POUCH.--MADE OF RED FLANNEL, ORNAMENTED WITH ELABORATE BEAD EMBROIDERY. RED WORSTED TASSELS, SUSPENDED ON STRINGS OF BLUE AND RED BEADS, ADORN THE LOWER EDGE OF THE POUCH. LENGTH, 15 INCHES; WIDTH, 21 INCHES. HAIDA INDIANS (SKITTAGETAN STOCK), PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND, ALASKA. 20,808. COLLECTED BY JAMES G. SWAN."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=530 , retrieved 6-24-2012: Bag Collector James Swan recorded this beaded bag as a "hunting pouch" when he purchased it at a Haida village on Prince of Wales Island in 1875, but the fine design suggests that it may have been worn on ceremonial occasions. The bag is made of red worsted (a type of wool cloth) with a leather-backed strap; beaded wool tassels hang from the bottom edge. Embroidered lettering on the back reads "MARY.ST, KOOK.SHOE CHU'DESTA, CHARLY M.R., ALASKA.T."