Pipe bag; buckskin upper with bead edge and 2 metal bead stars. Lower half with multicolored glass "seed" beads in geometric design on 2 pieces of cloth. Interior lower half lined with cotton cloth. Lower half with multicolored beads sewn on 2 sections of cloth; sewn to upper. Buckskin fringes sewn to cloth bottom, threaded with cylindrical beads.
Donor:
Christiane de Bord, Claude-Eric Lazard, Florence de Lavalette, and Sidney Lazard
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Plains and Prairie tribes
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 44.5 centimeters and width 17.5 centimeters
Loans:
S1980-1981 #24: Palo Alto Cultural Center (October 28, 1980–January 23, 1981)