NORTHERN PLAINS BEADED PIPEBAG - AW652

View Details Northern Plains (Gros Ventres?) Pipebag CA1880 Northern Plains pipebag, possibly Gros Ventres. Native tanned elk hide. The top of the bag has been cut off for unknown reasons either by Natives or a subsequent collector. Rawhide or parfleche quilled slats sewn to bottom of bag with sinew. Buckskin fringe sewn to bottom. The beaded panel is done in the "flat stitch" technique and features geometric designs against a blue field. On one side the panel background is in light blue with two identical hourglass figures with green centers outlined in greasy yellow and red white hearts. The hourglasses each have a white cross superimposed in the center outlined in orange. At the wide top and bottom of each hourglass are two orange triangles, bases against the edge, outlined in cobalt blue. The opposite side of the bag shows a darker blue background and a geometric design of two rows of triangles whose points rest upon a short bar. The designs mirror eachother horizontally. The center triangles are isocoles with light blue centers outlined in orange and white. The triangles at each side are right triangles with green centers outlined in red white-hearts and greasy yellow. The bars are each of orange outlined in white. The rawhide slats at the bottom of the bag have warped. They are quilled with dyed porcupine quills in a design of two yellow rectangles outlined in blue against a red background. The fringes are tied at the bottom to hold two translucent bugle beads of light and dark blue. Three of the rawhide slats are missing from one side. Some of the fringe is also broken or missing. About half of the bugle beads at the bottom of the fringe are gone. The quilled slats show a quill loss of approximately 40 per cent, most of the loss is on one side. There are two stains at the top center of the undecorated leather on one side that look to be the ghosts of self-adhesive price stickers that undoubtedly once said: "Fragile. Please don't touch". The bag measures 6 1/4 inches wide and is 23 3/4 inches ling including 9 1/2 inches of fringe.   SKU: C652 Price: $1,950.00 Quantity 1  Add to cart

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