Storage Bag

NA5358

From: United States of America | South Dakota (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: American

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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

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