Pipe Bag
NA3513
From: United States of America
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | NA3513 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Sioux |
Provenience | United States of America |
Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Buckskin | Quill | Tin | Hair |
Description | Buckskin pipe bag with two panels of dyed quills. One panel has two large diamonds, white, black, yellow on red ground. The reverse panel has two geometric shapes in yellow, purple, green, black on red ground. Quill wrapped strips of skin hang below the panels with geometric designs in purple, yellow, green and white on red ground. Cut fringe hangs below. Quill designs extend above the central panels with red dyed horsehair attached. Strips of buckskin wrapped with red quills and with tinklers attached near the opening. |
Length | 86 cm |
Width | 18.2 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Mrs. Patrick Henry Ray, 1915 |
Other Number | G139 - Gordon Number |
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