Lot 14
  • 14

Sioux Pictorial Quilled Hide Pipe Bag

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • hide, porcupine quills, chicken feathers
of typical elongated form, composed of very finely tanned deer hide, decorated with dyed porcupine quills in red, ivory, orange, green, pink, purple and yellow, with a horse and an elk on one side, the opposite with an equestrian figure, wearing a feather bonnet and holding a coup stick, surmounted by an elk, trimmed at the midsection with tin cone pendants inserted with red-dyed chicken feathers (domestic gallus gallus); a quill wrapped cut hide section below; the opening sinew sewn with glass beadwork in numerous colors.

Provenance

Midwestern Estate
Richard J. Pohrt Jr. and David West
Acquired from Grimmer-Roche