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Pipe Bag

Object Number:45-15-882
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Sioux
Provenience: Dakotas
Culture Area: Great Plains Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Buckskin
Bead
Quill
Length: 26.5 cm
Width: 28 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

Description

Buckskin, with beaded square on each side. Three staked concentric triangles and four stars, dark blue, white, red and yellow on blue field. Reverse: two stars and two concentric triangles joined by small diamond. Large pendant of quilled rawhide strips (inverted V design), buckskin fringes.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

American Indian Life 1776-1976 ( Dec 1976 - 1978) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Book] 1976. American Indian Life: 1776-1976.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 20View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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