Pipe Bag
39-18-7
From: United States of America | South Dakota | Pine Ridge Reservation
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 39-18-7 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Oglala |
Provenience | United States of America | South Dakota | Pine Ridge Reservation |
Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Buckskin | Quill | Tin | Feather |
Description | Buckskin. Large; decorated with dyed porcupine quills. Upper two-thirds sewed into buckskin in red, white and purple lines. Some pendants of red down attached with metal bangles. At base, square of rawhide strips covered with quills in pink, white, orange and purple. Long buckskin fringe at bottom. Designs differ to front and back. Those on one side very much faded; other side slightly. |
Length | 105 cm |
Width | 25 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Robert Frazier, 1939 |
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