Buckskin with fringed base; multi-colored beadwork; bead and horn ornaments, dyed cow tail.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Cheyenne
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. Original field catalogue: "Cheyenne tobacco bag". This type of bag came into use in the mid-19th century.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 15.5 centimeters and length 48 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4390. Published: Ill. in: Seven Arrows; Hyemeyhotsts Storm; Harper & Rowe, New York 1972, page 100. Exhibited: UCLMA Plains Indians, 1971; Library case: Feb.-March 1979.
Loans:
S1968-1969 #30: Project EPOCH/David Wayne Peri (October 28, 1968–December 31, 1968), S1977-1978 #39: Civic Arts Center (Walnut Creek) (February 23, 1978–April 11, 1978), and S1992-1993 #10: Minneapolis Institute of Art (September 22, 1992–August 17, 1993)