Pipe Bag

NA8379

From: Great Plains (Plain)

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA8379
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Great Plains (Plain)
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Buckskin | Bead | Quill | Tin | Feather
Description

Buckskin bag with beaded panels on either side. One panel is geometric designs in blue, red and green on white ground with metallic beads. The reverse has a different geometric design in the same colors. Additional triangular beaded designs above the panels, each apex with two pairs of red horsehair tinklers. Green, quill wrapped buckskin thongs with tinklers and yellow feathers attached below the opening. Thick beaded bands of red, yellow, blue and white run up the sides. The opening is beaded in yellow, blue and white. Quill wrapped buckskin fringe hangs below with quills dyed red and white forming two shapes.

Length 96 cm
Width 21 cm
Credit Line Gift of William K. Jewett, 1918
Other Number 6 - Collector Number

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