Pipe Bag
45-15-887
From: United States of America | South Dakota | Pine Ridge Reservation
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 45-15-887 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Oglala |
| Provenience | United States of America | South Dakota | Pine Ridge Reservation |
| Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Buckskin | Bead | Quill | Hide | Tin |
| Description | Smoked buckskin pipe bag, lower half solidly beaded. Face designed with two green broad forked figures connected by red path, the red cross path continues to reverse where two large tipis are joined at their tops. Ground white. Pendant of quilled rawhide strips, design 2 fields quartered purple and natural on red ground. Buckskin fringe. Metal and quilled thong tassel. |
| Width | 13.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945 |
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