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Lot 626

A Plateau beaded bag

6 – 7 June 2016, 11:00 PDT
San Francisco

Sold for US$4,375 inc. premium

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A Plateau beaded bag

Depicting three men in traditional finery, apparently engaged in some ceremonial occasion, carrying feather staffs, a drum stood up in front.
length 14in

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Provenance
Gifted to Dr. Haakon Knudsen, secretary of the Field Activities Department of the Council on Missionary Cooperation by the Crow Christian Council of the First Crow Indian Baptist Church during a visit to Lodge Grass, Montana in the early 1940s or before. Purportedly, at that time Dr. Knudsen was bestowed with the honorary name "Spies on the Enemy Strong", a name transferred to him from a Crow man who was the son of one of General Custer's former scouts.

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