Pipe Bag
NA3512
From: United States of America
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | NA3512 |
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 dyed yellow with beaded panels on either side. One panel has geometrics in blue, red, green and yellow on white ground. The reverse has a triangular and diamond design in similar colors. Below the panel skin wrapped with dyed quills in red, white, and green. Cut fringe hangs below. Each side of the bag has two vertical designs in geometrics in beads as well as beads around the opening. The opening has red and green dyed quills wrapped around buckskin strips. |
Length | 80 cm |
Width | 16 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Mrs. Patrick Henry Ray, 1915 |
Other Number | G142 - Gordon Number |
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