A native-tanned hide bag - possibly elk? - painted with traces of red pigment and decorated along the opening, side seams and base panel with sinew-sewn seed beads. The base panel consists of alternating crimson and pony trader blue bars which sit on a white field. The neck of the bag is unusually decorated with horizontal lanes consisting with multi-colored block - a motif which is mirrored in the quilled panel below.

This pipe bag is in excellent condition, and has unique features which all hallmarks of 1860s design: pony bead spacers between the quilled slats; wide beaded lanes; as well as early and classic bead colors.

37” long and 5.5” wide; accompanied by a custom stand.

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