Pipe Bag
| Object Number: | 45-15-893 |
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| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Provenience: | Great Plains (Plain) |
| Culture Area: | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Elk Hide (uncertain) Buffalo Hide (uncertain) Glass Quill Pigment |
| Length: | 84 cm |
| Width: | 17 cm |
| Credit Line: | Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945 |
Description
Yellow elk or buffalo hide. Broad beaded band on both faces. Light blue ground. Design: two pairs of yellow triangles joined at their apex with a red cross bar. Line of small squares down center. Reverse: four two-pronged yellow figures and 3 "stars." Beaded "plumes" above the band. Pendant: two concentric oblongs, purple, yellow and red on red ground.
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