Pipe Bag
63-8-26
From: United States of America
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 63-8-26 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Arapaho |
Provenience | United States of America |
Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Deerskin | Quill | Bead | Tin | Hair |
Description | Deerskin; bunch of fringe attached below top, some wrapped with red quill, tin jingles and yellow hairs; some jingles attached in middle of thongs; attached at same place small round medicine bag (?) covered with red and white beads. Band of beading around top and down sides to lower part of bag, which is fully beaded. All beaded areas have white background with spaced geometric designs in dark and light blue and red; narrow band down each side of large beaded area in red and green Lazy stitch.Below bottom of bag; panel of rigid fringe wrapped with red quills. Holding these is a strip of skin with long free fringe; tops of fringes are threaded through large cut glass beads in white, yellow and blue. Traces of yellow paint on bag and fringes. |
Length | 95.5 cm |
Width | 17 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Robert Pemberton, 1963 |
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