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Collection: Warnock
Item Number: WC8708888
Category: Bag, Bandolier
Region: Northeast
Tribe: Delaware
Period: 1850-1875 - ca. 1860
Materials: Multi-colored glass seed beads; cotton cloth; silk ribbon; green wool yarn; thread sewn.
Description: Shoulder strap is beaded with bold curvilinear designs. Different patterns with different background color on each side of strap. Strap ends terminate with three tabs. Pouch has triangular shaped flap and is decorated with curvilinear designs and two birds (eagles?) in various colored beads.
Dimensions: Length 33 inches 83.8 cm
Provenance:
George Shaw, Snowmass, Colorado
Lessard Collection - SD 933
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
Splendid Heritage, The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, February 10, 2009 - March 1, 2010
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wy, May 1, 2010 - October 31, 2010
Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Mo, Febuary 12, 2010 - April 24, 2010
References:
Warnock, John and Marva Warnock, eds, Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on American Indian Art, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2009, pp 166
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