TAHLTAN BAG

Tahltan tribe come from the Subarctic.

Women were the main artisans and the objects patterns should be validated by the tradition.

The girls had to learn to tan hides, to transform the tendons into thread, to sew and decorate clothing, to make baskets and containers of bark.

The works with glass beads, as this bag Wintu, collected in 1872, had a diffused use in northern California.

Abstract decoration and use of few colours characterize this kind of artifacts created by the Wintu tribe and their neighbours between 1870-80.