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Skin pipe bag--white bead work background.
Object Number 38-44-10/12840
Display Title Skin pipe bag--white bead work background.
Descriptions
Object Description Skin pipe bag--white bead work background. Design of green, red, yellow and blue beads. Red porcupine quill trimming.
Inventory Description Pipe bag, flag and triangle motifs, red quilled extensions, fringe
Classification
  • Bag
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Lakota
  • Sioux?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Additional Geographic Terms Plains
Materials Leather, Glass, Porcupine, Metal tinkler, Horsehair, Feather
Dimensions Overall: 92 x 17.9 x 0.6 cm (36 1/4 x 7 1/16 x 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 38-44-10/12840
Provenance
Collector Dr. Theodore Jewett Eastman (1888-1916 - ?)
Donor Mrs. Henry H. Richardson (1938)

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