Bag. Leather with flap, sides and bottom sewn with sinew. Front and sides trimmed with beadwork in a geometric pattern using blue, red,white and green glass seed beads; metal cones with red dyed horsehair along sides and flap. Leather strap handle detached at one end and loosely stitched to bag with thread at other end.
Donor:
Mrs. Lewis Summers
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Culture or time period:
Plains and Prairie tribes
Object type:
(not specified)
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Loans:
S1986-1987 #20: Richmond Art Center (January 28, 1987–April 16, 1987)