Native American Indian artifact from the Warnock collection - Blackfoot Case

Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC9311004

Category: Case - Rawhide Case

Region: Plains

Tribe: Blackfoot

Period: 1875-1900 - ca. 1875

Materials: Buffalo rawhide; native tanned buffalo hide fringe; paint.

Description: Cylindrical rawhide case is painted with two hourglass forms in blue, red and green flanked at each end with triangles in similar colors. Tanned hide lacing and fringe around top and bottom and along the side.

Condition: Good: missing some fringe

Dimensions: Length 23 inches

Provenance:

James Hooper Collection, #1586 Marvin Lince, Tualatin, Oregon Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

References:

Phelps, Steven, Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and Americas - The James Hooper Collection, Hutchinson, London, 1976, Plate 197, Item #1586