Pipe Bag
| Object Number: | 45-15-895 |
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| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Provenience: | Great Plains (Plain) |
| Culture Area: | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Elk Hide Buffalo Hide Bead Quill |
| Length: | 85.5 cm |
| Width: | 15 cm |
| Credit Line: | Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945 |
Description
Smoked elk or buffalo hid pipe bag. Beaded square on both faces. Design consists of a cross formed by two dark blue tipis and two yellow triangles with tips to red central square with white cross. Light blue ground. Reverse: two pairs of blue tipis with tops to green concentric squares, ground yellow. Buckskin fringe, quill-wrapped on upper part.
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