Pipe

Tobacco Bag

37994

From: United States of America | New Mexico

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 37994
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Navajo
Provenience United States of America | New Mexico
Culture Area Southwest Culture Area
Section American
Materials Buckskin | Glass
Description

Buckskin tobacco bag with beaded decoration at the lower end on one side. Designs are of horizontal bands of red and white beads above vertical red, white, and blue beads that follow the contours of the bag and narrow toward the bottom. The bottom of the bag has alternating segments of yellow and red beads. The reverse is beaded only at the upper edge with two bands of red and white beads in an interlocking triangle pattern.

Length 59.69 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Thomas B. Donaldson; subscription of John Wanamaker, 1901

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