A bag constructed from woven seed beads, featuring an A and B side. The recto side features a register of navy anthropomorphic figures and a quadruped, likely a deer. The lower register, executed in powder blue, consists of the same quadruped, perhaps the female counterpart. The verso side consists of geometric forms.

Ex Robert Pamplin Jr, OR

6” tall and 5.5” wide, accompanied by a custom stand

Published: Mary Schlick and Bonnie Kahn, Keeping the Spirit Alive: American Indian Art from the Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. Collection (Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society Press, 2001), p. 50. Alice Scherer, “Along the Continuum: Spirally-woven Beadwork of the Tlingit, Wasco, and Pit River Peoples,” Paper presented by Alice Scherer. Textile Society of America Symposium, September 2018, p. 7.

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