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Bags with an extending beadwork panel appeared in the Subarctic and Great Lakes assemblage of bag types around 1800. Its predecessor was a skin pouch often painted on both sides with a additional bottom panel of porcupine quillwork embroidered in geometric designs. New materials, such as glass beads and wool broadcloth, were incorporated into the bags after such materials became available in the early nineteenth century through non-Native sources. These bags were used for carrying shot following the introduction of the gun, flint and steel for making fire, personal medicines, and tobacco.