Pipe Bag

NA3514

From: United States of America

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA3514
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sioux
Provenience United States of America
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Buckskin | Glass | Quill
Description

Buckskin pipe bag with quilled panels. One side has triangles around a central square, in yellow and purple on red ground. Quilled wrapped strips of skin hang below the panels, red, green and orange. Cut fringe hangs below. The reverse panel is a column of yellow and purple squares on red ground. Opening is beaded, plant fibre wrapped cotton cord.

Length 97 cm
Width 15.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Patrick Henry Ray, 1915
Other Number G138 - Gordon Number

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