Twined corn husk bag with various geometric designs. The front is decorated with dyed blue, red, black, green, and yellow yarn. The back is decorated with similar colors. There is a leather tie around the top of the bag.

“Friendship bags,” also known as corn-husk bags, are made of twined cornhusk and contain woven, and sometimes beaded, elaborate geometric or naturalistic designs (Paterek 1994, 212-213). Women often used these bags to “store edible roots and many sorts of valuable goods” (Berlo & Phillips 1998, 132). The Plateau region tribes also traded these bags with many different tribes and later with white explorers and settlers.