Title
Bag 22
Subject
storage bag
Description
This bag is attributed to a weaver named Susie Walsey Billy who was a member of the Rock Creek Band, one of the 14 tribes comprising the Yakama Nation. The attribution is based on the testimony of Susie’s daughter, Agnes, who was able to identify the bag as her mother’s work and date it to the 1920’s or 1930’s when it was exhibited in l987 at the Maryhill Museum in Oregon.
Schlick Collection
Hemp, cornhusk, cotton string
Schlick Collection
Hemp, cornhusk, cotton string
Creator
Susie Walsey Billy, Yakama
Date
1920
Contributor
Photograph by David Calco, Allen Memorial Art Museum; Item posted by Rachel Mead
Original Format
photo of bag; obtained from original Closing the Circle website: http://www.oberlin.edu/external/circle/bag_22.htm and http://www.oberlin.edu/external/circle/bag_22_side2.htm