Details
A SIOUX BEADED AND QUILLED HIDE PIPE BAG
With beads sewn along the top and sides, the panel with green, white, yellow, and blue beads on maroon beaded ground with geometric pattern, quillwork with purple and white "checkerboard" on red ground, hide fringe, three quilled strips with metal tin cones attached near top
30½in. (77.5cm.) long
With beads sewn along the top and sides, the panel with green, white, yellow, and blue beads on maroon beaded ground with geometric pattern, quillwork with purple and white "checkerboard" on red ground, hide fringe, three quilled strips with metal tin cones attached near top
30½in. (77.5cm.) long
Provenance
Given to the consignor's father and mother, while the father was the attending physican on the Sioux Reservation near Wood, South Dakota in the 1930's.