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Collection: Warnock
Item Number: WC9102004
Category: Bag, Bandolier
Region: Southeast
Tribe: Southeast - Cherokee?
Period: 1825-1850 - ca. 1825
Materials: Black wool trade cloth; multi-colored glass seed beads; red wool yarn; red silk ribbon; cotton cloth.
Description: Bead decorated cloth Bandolier Bag. A frog-like design motif in green, pink, blue and white dominates one side of strap; a repetitive abstract design connected by a zigzag line characterizes the other. Cloth pouch and its triangular flap are also decorated with repetitive abstract designs in various color beads. Red wool tassels fringe bottom of bag.
Dimensions: Length 28 inches 71.2 cm.
Provenance:
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.
References:
Skinner Inc., Bolton, MA, Sale 1353, Lot 98, February 9, 1991
Penny, David W. and George C. Longfish, Native American Art, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Detroit, 1994, pp 60
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