Lot 11: Twined Bag by Kelly Schott
This year’s CLF Fundraising Auction will feature a museum-quality reproduction of a traditional Great Lakes style twined bag. It’s a fresh opportunity for collectors to add a unique and useful piece of art to their collections.
The bag is a faithful recreation inspired by an original Anishinaabe bag which is now in the collection of Montreal’s McCord Museum. Schott explains that the bag was created using the traditional and intricate process of single-stick twining. The bag is made as one continuous piece using a stick which is suspended in the bag. The resulting bag, which is made from 100% hand-rolled hemp fiber, has no seam.
Schott is an experienced twining artist whose work can be seen in museum and private collections across the country. She explains that twined bags of this type could have originally contained anything from “food and seeds to dirty clothes to spiritual and meaningful objects.”
Schott’s art pays fitting homage to the dignity of history’s common people. “My great love,” says the artist, “is of traditional utilitarian objects. To me, these objects reflect the everyday normal life of people.”
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