Saddle bag with tin bells, small blue, black, and white beads; red cotton cloth on buckskin; fringe at both ends.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Apache
Collector:
Hugh Lenox Scott
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Saddlebags (containers)
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Context of use:
The Western Apache use instead (of parfleches) saddlebags decorated with cut designs and streamers. This art is no doubt of Spanish Origin, taken over with the horse and saddle." (fide Goddard, Indians of the Southwest.)