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Pipe Bag
| Object Number: | 97-84-1030 |
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Sioux |
| Provenience: | South Dakota White River |
| Culture Area: | Great Plains (Culture Area) |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Buckskin Hide Shell Tin Hair |
| Credit Line: | Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997 |
| Other Number: | L-84-1030 - Old Museum Number 18660 - ANSP Number I 1345 - Gottschall Number |
Description
Buckskin pipe pouch. Upper half with beaded design and attached shield with quilled rawhide pendant. Lower hald solidly beaded, dark and light blue, red, green, steel in geomentric figures on white ground; reverse: four American flags turned star-fields to center. Ornamental extension of quilled rawhide thongs, green, white, yellow, and purple, zigzag and crosses on red ground. Two cowrie shells, tinklers and ribbons attached.
Bibliography:
| [Book] Gottschall, Amos H. 1909. Priced and Descriptive Catalogue of the Utensils, Implements, Weapons, Ornaments, Etc., of the Indians, Mound Builders, Cliff Dwellers: Typical Collections No. 1.. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: I 1345 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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