Pipe Bag

45-15-875

From: United States of America | Montana

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 45-15-875
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Piegan | Blackfeet
Provenience United States of America | Montana
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Buffalo Hide | Bead | Quill | Fabric | String
Description

Buffalo hide pipe bag. Beaded square on face made up of oblong blocks pink and pale blue for the ground, blue, green and yellow for the arms and red for the center of a large cross outlined in white. Edges of bag with rolled beading, the four points of the top edged with large blue beads. Cut fringe partly quilled and beaded.

Length 85 cm
Width 15 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945
Other Number 4 - Other Number

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