Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8708460

Category: Bag, Tobacco

Region: Plains

Tribe: Sioux

Period: 1875-1900 - ca. 1880

Materials: Native tanned deerskin; rawhide (slats); multi-colored glass seed beads; dyed porcupine quills copper cones; yellow ochre paint; sinew sewn.

Description: Bead decorated panel consists of triangles and diamond forms in red, yellow, green and blue against a white background. Beaded, fringed and quilled at top of bag. Twisted fringe finishes off bag.

Condition: Very good: minor bead loss; minor quill loss; hide and beads slightly dirty.

Dimensions: Length 37 inches 94 cm; Width 6.5 inches 16.5 cm.

Provenance:

Blanchard Collection
Lessard Collection- SD 467
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

References:

Willis Henry Auctions, Lot 183, September 23, 1984

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