TEEP bag Crow (?)-Peabody Museum-
E 'common the idea that Indian people have created various types of bags, bags and containers, leather or other materials, which help during the its nomadic movements from one place to another. In reality, however, the various types of bags were just as important is devoted to agriculture among the tribes as the Cherokee and the Navajos, and is among the tribes of the plains, moving by following the herds of bison. A leather bag is right to hold certain objects in a vase or basket, and Native North Americans tended to give great importance to a good assortment of those bags for the transport. Not only were the bags of Native specially sized and shaped to contain a single type of object, but they were often decorated to indicate precisely what was in them. In general we can say that they were the two basic styles: soft bags, made of tanned hides (usually buckskin or moose), and parfleche, made of rawhide. Currently, some modern Indian artists mix the two traditions through the creation of scholarships for deerskin tanned but with the appearance of parfleche. Regardless of their material, the bags of the Native Americans were often painted, engraved or worked for the addition of porcupine quills and tribal designs typical of the craftsman (usually a woman) that he had created, this in particular if the bag was designed to hold something sacred, like a medicine bag or a bag of tobacco, or was prepared for the festivities, as the engagement of her son or daughter. In recent centuries, the specific design of the Indian stock market began to change with the development of "possible bags, bags that might contain anything inside it. However, even today, both types of bags are made and decorated by artists from many different tribes, and continue to be a living part of life and practice native, much of the baskets or ceramics (which are generally considered only as works of 'art). Given the possibility di un loro utilizzo nella vita di tutti i giorni, le borse Indiane sono ancora oggetti comunemente realizzati per il commercio.
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Much is often made of the idea that Indian people developed so many specialized bags, pouches, and other leather containers to assist them in their nomadic wanderings from place to place. In reality, though, Indian bag-making was just as prominent in highly settled agricultural tribes like the Cherokees and Navajos as it was among the Plains tribes who followed the buffalo herds. A leather bag is better suited for carrying certain objects than a pot or basket is, and native North Americans tended to place great importance on how well-matched a carrying case was to its contents. Not only were native bags specially sized and shaped to hold an individual type of object, they were often decorated to indicate precisely what belonged inside of them. There were two very basic styles of American Indian bags: soft pouches, made of tanned animal hides (usually deerskin or elkskin), and parfleche, made of stiff rawhide. Some modern Indian artists blur the two traditions by creating tanned buckskin purses with rawhide siding on the inside to give it the boxy parfleche look. Regardless of their material, Native American bags were often painted, beaded, or quilled with the characteristic tribal designs of the craftsperson (usually a woman) who made it--particularly if the bag was designed to hold something sacred, such as a medicine bag or tobacco bag, or was being made as regalia for a fiance, daughter or son. In recent centuries the great specificity of Indian bag design began to change, with the development of the catch-all "possible bag" that could be used to transport any of one's possessions. Today, both specific and possible bags are still being made and decorated by artists from many different tribes, and they continue to be a lively and practical part of native life, much more so than baskets or pottery (which are generally treated only as artwork these days). Since non-native women also like to carry a purse or handbag, Indian bags are commonly made as trade items today as well.
