A Sioux beaded tobacco bag
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A Sioux beaded tobacco bag
The pouch constructed of thick buffalo hide, each side similarly designed, the principal panel with opposing geometric columns, alternating X-form and cross motifs populating the side bands, quilled slats below.
length 29in
Sold for US$ 1,625 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    The collector's notes indicate: "According to the documents that came with the pipe bag, a Mrs. Florence Lockwood, who either lived on the Sioux Reservation or visited there, purchased the bag from the chief of the Sioux tribe. The chief of the tribe assured her that the bag had been the property of the late chief, Sitting Bull. She gave the bag to a John R. Wilson in 1927, who was active in the fraternal organization Improved Order of Red Men, the bag subsequently becoming part of the Des Moines, Iowa chapter's lodge memorabilia."

Category: Ethnographic Art / Native American

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