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Pipe Bag

Object Number:57-25-1
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Blackfeet
Assiniboine
Provenience: Western Canada
Culture Area: Great Plains Culture Area
Date Made: pre 1875
Section:American
Materials:Buckskin
Bead
Hide
Credit Line:Gift of Jan McLaughlin, 1957

Description

4-lobed top edged with "white-under-red" and blue seed beads. Thin deer skin (fawn?). Spot stitch floral bead decoration at bottom on buffalo hide sewn to fawnskin. White (mixed with clear) bead background on one side, bright blue on other. Long plain fringe.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) View Objects in Exhibition

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