Finger-woven yarn bag, Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Finger weaving, also known as twining, is done without a loom. Many American Indian groups have traditionally used this technique to create intricately patterned storage bags from yarn and plant fibers. This bag was collected at the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Indian Reservation in northern Wisconsin the early 1940s. via: Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College see more: Twined storage bag, National Museum of the American Indian
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Finger-woven yarn bag, Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

Finger weaving, also known as twining, is done without a loom. Many American Indian groups have traditionally used this technique to create intricately patterned storage bags from yarn and plant fibers. This bag was collected at the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Indian Reservation in northern Wisconsin the early 1940s.

via: Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College

see more: Twined storage bag, National Museum of the American Indian

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