POSSIBLY ARAPAHO
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A PLAINS BEADED AND QUILLED HIDE BOW CASE AND QUIVER
Possibly Arapaho
Each decorated with concentric strips of red quillwork against the hide, the upper and lower panels sinew sewn in blue, light blue, yellow, white and translucent red beads in linear bar patterns, fringe under upper panels bordered with red trade cloth; bow case containing a curving bow with sinew bindings, wrapped in red, yellow, purple and green quillwork, painted with red dots on a yellow ground; a group of seventeen metal tipped arrows similarly wrapped
Bow case: 32in. (81.2cm.); bow: 45¼in. (115cm.); quiver: 29¼in. (74.3cm.); arrows: 26½in. (67.3cm.) long (20)
Possibly Arapaho
Each decorated with concentric strips of red quillwork against the hide, the upper and lower panels sinew sewn in blue, light blue, yellow, white and translucent red beads in linear bar patterns, fringe under upper panels bordered with red trade cloth; bow case containing a curving bow with sinew bindings, wrapped in red, yellow, purple and green quillwork, painted with red dots on a yellow ground; a group of seventeen metal tipped arrows similarly wrapped
Bow case: 32in. (81.2cm.); bow: 45¼in. (115cm.); quiver: 29¼in. (74.3cm.); arrows: 26½in. (67.3cm.) long (20)