Buckskin work bag; envelope type; front and back designs in quilling and beadwork; tin cones with tufts of yellow horsehair.
Donor:
David Ives Bushnell Jr., G. B. Gordon, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and W. C. Farabee
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Teton Dakota
Collector:
Francis La Flesche
Collection date:
1901-1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1904 and September 8, 1902
Context of use:
Work bag.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 18 centimeters and length 26.5 centimeters
Comment:
Exhibited: "UCLMA Plains Indians, 1971
Loans:
S1972-1973 #26: California State University, East Bay/JoAllyn Archambault (October 31, 1972–November 7, 1972), S1976-1977 #88: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (June 20, 1977–September 8, 1977), S1981-1982 #59: University of California, Davis/Pat Charley (April 14, 1982–June 21, 1982), and S1992-1993 #22: Heffernan Films (March 1, 1993–March 2, 1993)