8 x 13 x 2 in.
Emma Harter Sweetser Fund
(Sotheby-Parke Bernet, Los Angeles, California); purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1976.
The Eskimo people were the last to cross the land bridge from Asia to the Americas and are radically and linguistically different from the Indians. Their art reflects the sparse lifestyle imposed upon them by the environment. The materials which were most widely available were driftwood, stone and parts of the huge sea animals they hunted for food. This bag is formed of skin of one of these animals and decorated with glass beads, introduced to the Eskimo through trade.
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