Twined corn husk bag with various geometric designs. The bag is decorated with dyed red, green, blue, and pink yarn on the front, and with dyed red and green yarn on the back of the bag. The bag has a leather strap at the back.

“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.