Calfskin bag
Artist
Sioux
Mediumcalf skin, textile, sinew, beads, quill, metal, horsehair
DimensionsOther: 59 × 21 cm (23 1/4 × 8 1/4 in.)
ClassificationsContainers
Credit LineGift of Ogden B. Read
Object number1881.3.124
DescriptionFashioned from an unborn buffalo calf skin, the blue-dyed cloth extension sewn to neck, limb extensions gathered together and wrapped with sinew-strung beads in light and dark blue and yellow in banded design over red stroud. Each extension terminates in three pink quill-wrapped rawhide slats equipped with metal cone dangles with lavender horsehair tufts, center of front and underside decorated with leather disks beaded in a square-cross design.On View
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Yanktonnai Sioux
SIOUX PROB. HUNKPAPA
Northwest Coast