Chippewa Bandolier Bag

In the form of a bandolier bag, thread-sewn on canvas and backed with blue calico and edged with brown wool tape.  Tendrilous flowers and vines creep along shoulder strps and around false pouch in colors of pea green, translucent green, rose, pink, black, yellow, amber, light blue, cobalt and maroon on a white ground.  Loop fringe at bottom and at shoulder strap seam made of brown and blue cane beads with tufts of purple and red wool yarn.Collected between 1900 and 1904 by a civil engineer working for the Northern Pacific Railroad in the Northwest.