Bag

45-15-818

From: United States of America

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 45-15-818
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Arapaho
Provenience United States of America
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Leather | Glass | Tin
Iconography Tipi
Description

Leather bag, flat, oblong with rounded flap. Face with solidly beaded square. Design: four large tipis, tips of pairs joined, mustard, navy and light blue on white ground (red doorways). Curved beaded band on flap. Long buckskin fringes and very long tin tinklers. Formerly laced up sides with large white and blue beads.

Length 24 cm
Width 19.4 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

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