Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8708446

Category: Bag, Tobacco

Region: Plains

Tribe: Sioux - Yankton

Period: 1875-1900 - ca. 1885

Materials: Native tanned buffalo hide; native tanned deerskin (fringe); red and blue trade cloth; multi-colored glass seed beads; thread sewn.

Description: Bead decoration consists of stepped diamond motif and stepped triangles on a light blue background on obverse and diamonds, triangles and chevrons against the same light blue background on the reverse. Wool cloth upper portion.

Dimensions: Length: 30 inches 76 cm; Width 6 inches 15 cm.

Provenance:

Trade Winds Auction Gallery, Wadsworth, Ohio
Lessard Collection- SD 453
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

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