Pipe Bag

63-8-26

From: Great Plains (Plain)

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 63-8-26
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Arapaho
Provenience Great Plains (Plain)
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Deerskin | Quill | Bead | Tin | Hair
Description

Deerskin; bunch of fringe attached below top, some wrapped with red quill, tin jingles and yellow hairs; some jingles attached in middle of thongs; attached at same place small round medicine bag (?) covered with red and white beads. Band of beading around top and down sides to lower part of bag, which is fully beaded. All beaded areas have white background with spaced geometric designs in dark and light blue and red; narrow band down each side of large beaded area in red and green Lazy stitch.Below bottom of bag; panel of rigid fringing wrapped with red quills. Holding these is a strip of skin with long free fringe; tops of fringes are threaded through large cut glass beads in white, yellow and blue. Traces of yellow paint on bag and fringes.

Length 95.5 cm
Width 17 cm
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Robert Pemberton, 1963

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