Storage Bag
NA5358
From: United States of America | South Dakota (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | NA5358 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Sioux |
Provenience | United States of America | South Dakota (uncertain) |
Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Buckskin | Quill | Wool | Horsehair |
Description | Quilled bands and fringe at top. One side undecorated; decorated side has four rows of red wool, flower (?). 10 horizontal rows of quilled stitches. The rim of the bag has strands of leather with red and blue, and orange dyed strands of quills strung around them. At the base of each strand are 3 small white beads and one conical silver decoration with a fringe. There are two such decorations at each corner of the bag and a looped, quilled handle at each top corner and a bell on each of ther bottom corners. |
Length | 35.56 cm |
Width | 27.94 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Mrs. M. A. Thompson, 1916 |
Other Number | 188 - Collector Number |
Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.