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Pipe Bag

Object Number:45-15-891
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Oglala
Provenience: United States of America
South Dakota
Culture Area: Great Plains Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Buckskin
Bead
Quill
Tin
Hair
Width: 16 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

Description

Yellow buckskin, heavily beaded on both faces. Design consists of two pairs of navy half tipis joined by green half diamonds. Reverse design is two columns of green triangles and red diamond with two-pronged rod. Ground color light blue. Beaded festoons and plumes above field. Pendant of quilled rawhide strips. Two purple crosses in green boxes on red ground. Buckskin fringe. Tinklers with red horsehair and feathers.

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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