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A SIOUX PRAIRIE DOG PELT TOBACCO BAG
constructed from two pelts, the limbs bound with red wool trade cloth, overlaid with finely plaited yellow and blue-dyed porcupine quills, a wood pipe tamper suspended from hide thong at back, decorated with similar quillwork in red, yellow and purple, lined with muslin, embellished with gold, purple, red and green silk ribbon, old tag attached, inscribed Tobacco Bag, This bag was owned by Tobacco Mouth, ... a medicine man, head man of the Lower Brule. Tobacco Mouth went to Washington with Rev. Luke C. Walker.
Length: 16½ in. (41.9 cm.)
constructed from two pelts, the limbs bound with red wool trade cloth, overlaid with finely plaited yellow and blue-dyed porcupine quills, a wood pipe tamper suspended from hide thong at back, decorated with similar quillwork in red, yellow and purple, lined with muslin, embellished with gold, purple, red and green silk ribbon, old tag attached, inscribed Tobacco Bag, This bag was owned by Tobacco Mouth, ... a medicine man, head man of the Lower Brule. Tobacco Mouth went to Washington with Rev. Luke C. Walker.
Length: 16½ in. (41.9 cm.)
Provenance
This tobacco bag was given to Reverend Luke C. Walker by Tobacco Mouth's widow after his death. Rev. Walker gifted it to David W. Clark, Jr. on his fifth birthday.