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Maker(s):unknown
Culture:American
Title:hunting bag
Date Made:late 18th century
Type:Personal Equipment
Materials:leather; horn; wood; base metal: brass
Place Made:Pennsylvania
Accession Number:  HD 2021.29
Credit Line:Museum Collections Fund
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
This leather hunting bag with powder horn and accessories includes a dual compartment bag with fringed bottom edge, the flap has a scalloped and red painted edge, the leather strap has a sheath sewn onto it with a wooden turned handle skinning knife, a brass oiler, and a brass powder measure. The bag is complete with a fourth generation York screw tip powder horn of about 15 inches with beehive spout and large bulbous turned wooden butt, horn has a green color and double lines engraved above the plug and below the threaded spout. Condition: the leather shows cracking and crazing, part of the main strap has been replaced. There is a repaired break on main strap where it meets bag on the right side. Some losses to the fringes and along the border in center on top of lid.

Tags:
hunting

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