Native American Indian artifact from the Warnock collection - Sioux

Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8708940

Category: Bag, Tobacco

Region: Plains

Tribe: Sioux - Teton

Period: 1850-1875 - ca. 1875

Materials: Native tanned deerskin (top); native tanned buffalo hide (bag proper); buffalo rawhide (slats); tin cones and dyed horsehair; dyed porcupine quills; fragment of brass bell; cotton cloth; sinew sewn.

Description: Upper portion of bag is heavily decorated with quillwork running in horizontal stripes, red dyed quills predominant. The bag is finished off with a section of quill work wrapped slats and hide fringe.

Dimensions: Length 38 inches 98 cm; Width 6 inches 15 cm.

Provenance:

Lessard Collection- SD 989 Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.