Painted rawhide container
Artist
Yanktonai Dakota
MediumLeather, paint
DimensionsOther: 73 (plus 16 cm fringe) × 29.5 cm (28 3/4 × 11 5/8 in.)
ClassificationsContainers
Credit LineGift of Ogden B. Read
Object number1881.3.24
DescriptionRawhide, folded and sewn together on one side with deerskin lacing. Deerskin bottom and upper extension with rawhide fringe on three sides and skin drawstring at top. Painted design on front consist of geometric and curvilinear patterns in red, yellow, green, and blue, outlined in black, with use of yellow crosshatching in central lozenge and triangles. The back is undecorated except for a central lozenge in green, yellow, and blue and four small triangles in yellow with blue borders in corners.On View
Not on viewCollections
Yanktonai Dakota
SIOUX, PROB. TETON DAKOTA
Yanktonnai Sioux
SIOUX PROB. TETON DAKOTA
after 1860