Beautiful Vintage Athabascan Beaded Tobacco Pouch-Alaska Native Hand Made

Description

Beautiful Athabascan beaded velvet tobacco pouch that is beaded with floral designs on both sides and is 7 and 1/4 inches high by 5 and 1/4 inches wide with the velvet still being soft and clean....
Very good shape for its age with only a few missing white beads on one side that we have shown above.....
The other side of the pouch has no missing beads......
A super addition to anyone's collection or display.......
Alaska Natives are the indigenous peoples of Alaska. They include: Aleut, Inuit, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Eyak, and a number of Northern Athabasca cultures. Alaskan natives in Alaska number about 119,241 (as of the 2000 census). There are 229 federally recognized Alaskan villages and five unrecognized Tlingit Alaskan Indian tribes.The Athabascan people call themselves ‘Dena,’ or ‘the people.’ They speak eleven different languages. The Athabascan people traditionally lived along five Alaskan rivers: the
Yukon
, the
Tanana
, the
Susitna
, the
Kuskokwim
, and the
Copper River
. This area, known as the "Interior" of Alaska, runs from south of the Brooks Mountain Range down to the Kenai Peninsula.