Pipe Bag

57-25-1

From: Western Canada

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 57-25-1
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Blackfeet | Assiniboine
Provenience Western Canada
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Date Made pre 1875
Section American
Materials Buckskin | Bead | Hide
Description

4-lobed top edged with "white-under-red" and blue seed beads. Thin deer skin (fawn?). Spot stitch floral bead decoration at bottom on buffalo hide sewn to fawnskin. White (mixed with clear) bead background on one side, bright blue on other. Long plain fringe.

Credit Line Gift of Jan McLaughlin, 1957

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