Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8708584

Category: Saddle

Region: Plains

Tribe: Sioux - Southern Teton

Period: 1825-1850 - ca. 1835

Materials: Native tanned buffalo hide; buffalo rawhide; wood stirrups; pink, black and blue glass pony beads, sinew sewn.

Description: Bead decoration consisting of two diamond elements touching a bar are located at each of the four corners.

Dimensions: Length 17.75 inches 45 cm; Width 11.75 inches 30 cm.

Provenance:

Old tag in script states, A Sioux Indian saddle used by an Indian on the Plains in 1839. Presented by Lieut. Charles A. Love U.S.N.
Lessard Collection- SD 602
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

References:

Willis Henry Auctions, September 23, 1984

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