Native American Indian artifact from the Warnock collection - Arapaho Case

Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8708895

Category: Case - Rawhide Case

Region: Plains

Tribe: Arapaho

Period: 1850-1875 - ca. 1850

Materials: Buffalo rawhide; native tanned buffalo hide, blue and red glass pony beads; red, green and black paint; porcupine quills, tin cones; traces of red wool cloth; sinew sewn.

Description: Square rawhide case with geometric designs painted on front, front flap and reverse. Flap is further decorated with pony beads, fringe and wrapped quills around fringe. Long fringe hangs from each side.

Condition: Good: wear consistent with age.

Dimensions: Height 10 inches 25.4 cm; Width 9.75 inches 24.8 cm.

Provenance:

Turtle Museum, Niagara Falls, New York Lessard Collection- SD WC940 Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

References:

Torrance, Gaylord, The American Indian Parfleche: A Tradition of Abstract Painting, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1994, pp 127, Fig. 38