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Pipe Bag

Object Number:45-15-889
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Sioux (uncertain)
Culture Area: Great Plains Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Buckskin
Quill
Tin
Bead
Feather
Width: 13.5 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

Description

Smoked buckskin pipe bag, quilled square on each face. Face design: diagonal cross of small green blocks with purple bar on red ground. Obverse: yellow staff with seven purple cross bars on red ground, quilled festoon with standards, tinklers and green feathers. Pendant of quilled rawhide, design four tipis. Buckskin fringes.

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