Painted rawhide container
Artist
Yanktonai Dakota
MediumLeather, glass trade beads, quills
DimensionsOther: 63 × 34 cm (24 13/16 × 13 3/8 in.)
ClassificationsContainers
Credit LineGift of Ogden B. Read
Object number1881.3.25
DescriptionRawhide, folded, sewn together on one side with sinew stitches, deerskin bottom and upper extension stitched with sinew lacing to rawhide body, the skin sections are decorated with vertical and horizontal rows of purple quillwork; below the upper edge, a horizontal beaded band in blue, white-core rose, yellow and orange. Rawhide panels with painted design of vertical stripes (red on one side, blue on the other) framed by a blue border of alternating semicircles and triangles (above) and broad triangles (below) in red and yellow.On View
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Yanktonai Dakota
SIOUX PROB. TETON DAKOTA
SIOUX, PROB. TETON DAKOTA