Bag

Object Number:	97-84-1146
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Culture:	Sioux
Provenience:	United States of America South Dakota White River
Culture Area:	Plains Culture Area
Section:	American
Materials:	Buckskin Quill Tin Feather Bead
Length:	36.5 cm
Width:	15.3 cm
Thickness:	2.5 cm
Credit Line:	Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997
Other Number:	L-84-1146 - Old Museum Number 18668 - ANSP Number II 663 - Gottschall Number

Description

Buckskin bag, solidly quilled. Top of horned animal head green and yellow on red ground; reverse, variant design, red, green, yellow, purple, and white on red striped ground. Quilled thong extension concentric squares. Tinklers with red feathers. Beaded band around mouth.

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. 2.. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: II 663