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Catalog Number CAS 1988-0005-0033   CAS 1988-0005-0033; Pipe bag
Category Bead & Leatherwork
Object Name Pipe bag
Culture Lakota Sioux
Global Region North America
Country USA
State/Prov./Dist. unknown
County
Other Geographic Data unknown
Maker's Name Unknown
Date of Manufacture ca. late 1800s to early 1900s
Collection Name N/A
Materials Leather; Glass beads; Dyed porcupine quills; Dyed horsehair; Metal: Tin
Description Pipe bag sewn from single piece of hide; Hide lace attached at mouth to which tin cones and dyed horsehair are affixed; Upper is plain except for lazy stitch beading at mouth, along sides and two hourglass/ diamond figures above beaded panel; Lazy stitch beaded panel design of four "K" motifs in red, blue and yellow and blue and yellow crosses on white background; Reverse panel design of four multicolored rectangles from which vertical lines extend; Dyed quill-wrapped hide slats extend from beaded panel from which plain fringe extends; Collected by American artist Maynard Dixon (1875-1946) prior to 1940.
Dimensions (cm) Width = 16.7, Thickness = 1.2, Length = 64.0