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Collection: Warnock
Item Number: WC8708943
Category: Bag, Bandolier
Region: Northeast
Tribe: Winnebago
Period: 1875-1900 - ca. 1885
Materials: Multi-colored glass seed beads; black wool cloth; wool yarn; silk ribbon (traces).
Description: Loom woven beadwork bag decorated with crossed american flages in red, white, and blue against a white background on both the panel and strap. Strap is offset from pouch and has a single beaded tab on each end. Beaded tabs with flag motif decorate bottom of panel.
Dimensions: Length 33.25 inches 84.5 cm
Provenance:
Lessard Collection - SD 993
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
References:
cf. Hodge, G. Stuart, Director, The American Indian and The American Flag, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, 1975, pp 120, Fig 151
cf. Hill, Tom and Richard W. Hill Sr., Editors, Creation's Journey: Native American Identitiy an Belief, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1994, pp 30
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