Collection: Fenn

Item Number: FCBAG1826

Category: Bag

Region: Plateau

Tribe: Unknown

Period: 1875-1900

Materials: Native tanned buckskin, rawhide, glass beads

Description: Fully beaded (front and back) strike-a-light bag with green, yellow, blue, and red beads, in geometric designs. At the bottom of the bag hang three triangular flaps beaded around the edges. The beads on the front are beaded to a rawhide stiffer.

Dimensions: 7 inches

Provenance:

Mac Grimmer

References:

Hanson, James A., Spirits in the Arts: From the Plains and Soutwest Indian Cultures, The Lowell Press, Kansas City, 1994, p-90

Click on photo for larger picture