Bag

Museum number:
2-4887
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
72 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.14
Description:
Smoked buckskin with fringed base; multicolor beadwork on edges and base. Original field catalogue: "Sioux tobacco bag".
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Culture or time period:
Dakota
Collector:
Hugh Lenox Scott
Collection date:
1876-1897
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Context of use:
For pipe.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 14.5 centimeters and length 47.5 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4390. Published: Ill: Seven Arrows, Hyemeyohsts; Harper and Row, New York. 1972, page 100. Published: "Exhibited: UCLMA Plains Indians, 1971
Loans:
S1973-1974 #65: Oakland Museum of California (March 8, 1974–April 24, 1974)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-4887, described as Smoked buckskin with fringed base; multicolor beadwork on edges and base. Original field catalogue: "Sioux tobacco bag".Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-4887, described as Smoked buckskin with fringed base; multicolor beadwork on edges and base. Original field catalogue: "Sioux tobacco bag".Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-4887, described as Smoked buckskin with fringed base; multicolor beadwork on edges and base. Original field catalogue: "Sioux tobacco bag".

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