An important and early Cree quilled pouch

The blue cloth bag with two quillwork panels, each featuring light blue, dark blue and red/pink geometric motifs on a natural ground, with looped beaded and quillwork fringe, secured with a braided wool strap.
pouch length 10 3/4in, width 6 1/4in

Provenance
Supposedly purchased from the direct descendants of the Peale family by Wesley Crozier of Red Bank, New Jersey
Sold at Skinner, Inc., Boston, MA, September 2005, sale 2291, Important American Indian & Ethnographic Arts, lot 142
Economos Works of Art, Santa Fe, NM
An American Collection, acquired from the above in 2005

Accompanied by an old paper label, "This Indian bag was made by the squaws and used by Titian R. Peale during Longs Rocky Mountain Expedition in 1819-1820," the reverse reads "Holmesburg Feb 4, 1876,"

Titian Ramsay Peale (1799 – 1885) was a noted American scientific illustrator, naturalist, and explorer. He participated as a naturalist in several scientific surveys, including the 1817 expedition of the Academy of Natural Sciences to Florida and Georgia, and as part of the scientific contingent of the 1819-20 Yellowstone Expedition (also known as the Atkinson-Long Expedition) led by Colonel Henry Atkinson and Major Stephen Harriman Long.

Exhibited
Monmouth County Library, Manalapan Township, NJ (dates unknown)