A shot pouch made of bleached caribou skin, sewn with sinew. The top panel is embroidered with quillwork foliage, tulips and a rose bud. The bag is suspended by a blue silk cord with a tassel at each end - this also holds the bag closed. A woven beadwork panel on the front depicts a green church on a white background. There is a beadwork fringe round the edge, each string terminating in a triangular metal tag. This fringe would seem to indicate Ojibwa influences.

Embroidered bags like this were commonly used by men involved in the fur-trade, to carry shot or fire-making equipment. It was probably made by a Métis woman at the Red River settlement: the church depicted on the panel is thought to be the Cathedral of St Boniface there. Once known as Half-Breeds, Métis communities resulted from relationships between Native American women and European men.

The bag forms part of a collection of ethnographical material made by Admiral Sir George Back (1796-1878). Back took part in three overland journeys to explore the north coast of America in 1819-22, 1825-27 and 1833-35. He travelled north via the network of rivers and lakes on the Canadian Shield stopping at Hudson Bay Company trading posts where he would have acquired this item which was probably intended as a present.