Pipe Bag

45-15-889

From: North America

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 45-15-889
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sioux (uncertain)
Provenience North America
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Buckskin | Quill | Tin | Bead | Feather
Description

Smoked buckskin pipe bag, quilled square on each face. Face design: diagonal cross of small green blocks with purple bar on red ground. Obverse: yellow staff with seven purple cross bars on red ground, quilled festoon with standards, tinklers and green feathers. Pendant of quilled rawhide, design four tipis. Buckskin fringes.

Width 13.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

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