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Lot Essay
"Shaped like a beaver tail, this unusual hide pouch is quilled in multicolored checks, placed horizontally on one side and in chevrons on the other, and edged with braided quills. Although the raw upper edge suggests the pouch might have been attached to something else, more likely its maker designed it as a tobacco pouch and simply did not finish it," (Peterson, 1993, p. 129).
This quilled pouch is a forerunner of many similar pouches with similar decoration in beadwork, in collections of Western Sioux art. This unique quillworked prototype may have been acquired by Father De Smet at Fort Pierre on the Missouri River.
Ted Brasser March 14, 2000
This quilled pouch is a forerunner of many similar pouches with similar decoration in beadwork, in collections of Western Sioux art. This unique quillworked prototype may have been acquired by Father De Smet at Fort Pierre on the Missouri River.
Ted Brasser March 14, 2000