Pipe Bag

45-15-898

From: United States of America | Dakotas

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 45-15-898
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Oglala
Provenience United States of America | Dakotas
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Buckskin | Bead
Description

Vase-shaped pipe bag. Body solidly beaded with four narrow strips running up the neck to the beaded mouth. Lines continued by four green stripes uniting at the pointed bottom. Concentric quadrangles, blue-yellow-red, and red-green-blue on white ground. Two pendants of cut buckskin, roll-beaded for half their length.

Length 31.5 cm
Width 13 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

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