Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8708304

Category: Bag - Belt pouch

Region: Plains

Tribe: Arapaho

Period: 1825-1850 - ca. 1855

Materials: Multi-colored glass seed beads; white glass pony beads; native tanned buffalo hide; sinew sewn.

Description: Small square pouch with long triangular beaded flap. Flap is fully beaded with repetative inverted triangles in white against a blue background. Hide belt with bead decorated ends and an attached awl case.

Dimensions: Length (pouch) 13.75 inches 35 cm; Width (pouch) 4.5 inches 11.4 cm; Length (belt) 104.75 inches 266 cm

Provenance:

University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana
Lessard Collection- SD 294
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

Exhibitions:

Splendid Heritage, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, May 27, 1995 - September 27, 1995
Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, October 23, 1998 - October 3, 1999

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