TOBACCO POUCH

NECK STYLE WITH CLAY PIPE

This is a beautiful eastern woodland Indian tobacco pouch which I recently completed. It is made from a heavy red wool fabric and is authentic to the 18^th century pattern used by the various tribes to hold sacrid tobacco.  This bag measures 3 5/8 inches in width and 4 3/4  inches in height. The strap is made from brain tanned deer leather dyed a brown hue using walnut hulls and left long enough to secure to the neck. It has white and dark blue crow beads deocrating it. The bottom had 2 brass cones with red deerhair. The wampum panel is 2 1/2 inches by 3 inches in length.  It was woven with a heavy linen flax cording as the warp, and a sinew as the weft securing each bead in place. The panel was then removed from the loom and hand stitched to the wool pouch. The small beadwork along the edge is done with Czech glass seedbeads.  The bag is fully lined with a natural colored osenburg liner handstitched to the wool. Linen thread was used for the construction of the bag. A nice domed brass holds the 1 1/4 inch flap in place. The new clap pipe is 4 3/8 inches long and passes through the flap and button holding it in place.

This handsome tobacco bag would make a nice addition for anyone doing a historic woodland Indian or Longhunter reanactor impression. It also makes a beautiful decorative piece for any frontier motif in your home or office.

Please email me any questions you may have. Also please view other woodland items on ebay’s MY STORE "Art of America Past Gallery". You can also view a wide selection of my eastern frontier artwork as seen on the covers of the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association’s magazine MUZZLE BLASTS.