Pocketbook or Doctor's bag
- Date created
- circa 1890
- Culture/People
- Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)
- Possible collector
- Reverend Walter Clark Roe, Non-Indian, 1859-1913
- Mary Wickham Roe (Mrs. Walter Clark Roe), Non-Indian, 1863-1941
- Elizabeth Merwin Roe Page (Mrs. Alfred R. Page), Non-Indian, 1861-1943
- Previous owner
- Elizabeth Merwin Roe Page (Mrs. Alfred R. Page), Non-Indian, 1861-1943
- Marjorie Page Schauffler (Mrs. Bennet Fellows Schauffler), Non-Indian, 1897-1983
- Donor
- Marjorie Page Schauffler (Mrs. Bennet Fellows Schauffler), Non-Indian, 1897-1983
- Collection History
- Formerly in the collection of the Page and Schauffler families and possibly collected by Reverend Walter Clark Roe (1859-1913 ) or his wife Mary Wickham Roe (1863-1941), who served as missionaries in Colony, Oklahoma, between 1897 and 1913, or by Mrs. Roe's sister, Elizabeth Merwin Roe Page (Mrs. Alfred R. Page, 1861-1943), during visits to Indian reservations as part of her duties as Field Secretary for the Women's Board of Domestic Missions of the Reformed Church in America (1903 to 1913); inherited by Mrs. Page's daughter, Marjorie Page Schauffler (Mrs. Bennet Fellows Schauffler, 1897-1983); donated to MAI by Mrs. Schauffler in 1981.
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- Place
- North Dakota or South Dakota; USA (inferred)
- See related items
- Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)
- Bags/Pouches (and parts)
- On View
- NMAI, Washington DC: Window on Collections, Best of Beadwork
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 25/982
- Barcode
- 250982.000
- Object Type
- Bags/Pouches (and parts)
- Object Name
- Pocketbook or Doctor's bag
- Media/Materials
- Hide, metal items, glass bead/beads, metal bead/beads, twine/string
- Techniques
- Sewn, lazy/lane stitch beadwork
- Dimensions
- 30 x 21 cm
- Record ID
- NMAI_266778