Shoulder bag (missing strap)

Anishinaabe, possibly Mississauga Ojibwa, Native American artist · ca. 1800

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Palette

Bone white
46% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.8:1

Dark chocolate
36% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.2:1

Fawn
8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.2:1

Chestnut
4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.7:1

Tan
3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.8:1

Burnt orange
3% of the image
Orange · text contrast 5.2:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

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Artist: Anishinaabe, possibly Mississauga Ojibwa, Native American artist
Date: ca. 1800
Type: Decorative arts & sculpture
Medium: Tanned leather, porcupine quills, dye, glass beads, silk ribbon, metal cones, and deer hair
Size: 12 × 9 in. (30.5 × 22.9 cm)
Place: United States
Period: 18th century
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 55, colourfulness 12

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2019. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Shoulder bag (missing strap)

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