Miniature pipe bag

Museum number:
2-4825
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
10 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.14
Description:
Miniature pipe bag; smoked buckskin with fringe, quill-wrapped rawhide and bead decoration. Original field catalogue entry: "Sioux paint bag.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Dakota
Collector:
Hugh Lenox Scott
Collection date:
1876-1897
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Miniature (size attribute)
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Context of use:
Form of bag, quillwork, fringe, beading indicate probably child's toy.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 19.5 centimeters
Comment:
Published: "Exhibited: UCLMA Plains Indians, 1971" "Illustrated in: Seven Arrows by Hyemeyohsts Storm. Harper and Row Publishers, New York 1972, page 100.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Miniature pipe bag, accession number 2-4825, described as Miniature pipe bag; smoked buckskin with fringe, quill-wrapped rawhide and bead decoration. Original field catalogue entry: "Sioux paint bag.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Miniature pipe bag, accession number 2-4825, described as Miniature pipe bag; smoked buckskin with fringe, quill-wrapped rawhide and bead decoration. Original field catalogue entry: "Sioux paint bag.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Miniature pipe bag, accession number 2-4825, described as Miniature pipe bag; smoked buckskin with fringe, quill-wrapped rawhide and bead decoration. Original field catalogue entry: "Sioux paint bag.

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