Pipe Bag

NA8376

From: Great Plains (Plain)

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA8376
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Great Plains (Plain)
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Buckskin | Bead | Quill
Description

Light colored buckskin bag with beaded panels on either side. One panel is geometric designs in blue, yellow, red and green on white ground. The reverse has a different geometric design in green, blue and red on white ground. Thick beaded bands of crosses in red, blue, and yellow on white ground run up the sides. The opening is beaded in yellow, red, blue and white. Quill wrapped buckskin fringe hangs below with quills dyed red and yellow forming two rectangles. Quill wrapped segments may be reused parfleche..

Length 91.5 cm
Width 19.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of William K. Jewett, 1918
Other Number 7 - Collector Number

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