Bandolier bag

The bags are named for bandoliers or the cloths carrying gunpowder that soldiers wore from the 16th to early 20th centuries. They are also called shot pouches or simply shoulder bags.

In Ojibwemowin, or the Ojibwe language, bandolier bags are called gashkibidaagan. The Ojibwe name comes from the word parts, gashk-, meaning "enclosed, attached together" and -bid, "tie it."^{[citation needed]}

The English word bandolier comes from the French word bandouliere meaning "shoulder belt" and traces back to the Spanish bandoera the diminutive of banda or "sash."^{[citation needed]}

A bandolier bag may be worn either across the shoulder to the side or in front like an apron.^[1][2] Men wore them and placed valuables such as tobacco, pipes, medicine, or flint for starting fires.

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  Muscogee bandolier bag, c. 1820, wool, cotton, silk, glass beads, Birmingham Museum of Art
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  Loom-beaded bandolier bag attributed to Winnebago people, c. 1880s, collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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  Woodlands artist, Bandolier Bag, ca. 1840, wool, cotton, and glass beads, Portland Art Museum.