Pipe Bag

45-15-892

From: North America

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 45-15-892
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sioux (uncertain)
Provenience North America
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Buckskin | Bead | Quill | Hide
Description

Buckskin, lower two fifths beaded on both faces. Design: on white field, large green diamond with blue "Comb" ends and joined laterally to red half-diamonds. Reverse: large four-pointed figure, blue, yellow, red, green, with striped hour-glass center. Beaded "plumes" above main field. Pendant: quilled rawhide strips, with two green and yellow oblongs on red ground. Buckskin fringes.

Width 15 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

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