Sioux beaded warrior’s travel pipe bag with brain tanned deer skin, red white hearts, greasy yellows and brain tanned fringe. Inside were two handwritten tags “Sioux Indian Pipe Bag. Buck Skin – Beads Sewn Partly With Thread and Partly Animal Sinew. At One Time in Denver Art Museum.” Second Western Trading Post tag “Made by Mrs. Pete Bordeaux Rosebud S.D. Inventory S427/330 50 Cents.”
PERIOD: Late 19th Century
ORIGIN: Great Plains – Sioux, Native American
SIZE: 9″ x 4″, plus 8″ fringe