Sioux Pipe Bag / 1870

A sinew-sewn pipe bag constructed from native-tanned hide, beaded on a blue field. The obverse and reverse are decorated in a stepped hourglass motif of small dark blue, yellow, and translucent red seed beads. Three prolonged hourglass motifs top the bead panel. Below the panel, there are quill-wrapped parfleche strips hoisting fringe. Suspended from the opening is a quill-wrapped tie terminating in a tin cone of dyed horse hair. 

34.5" long and 5.5" wide; accompanied by a custom table mount

Reportedly collected by General Edwin McAlpin c. 1880s

#40154