A pair of possible bags constructed from native tanned buffalo hide, decorated on the verso with naturally dyed rows of quillwork with alternating red and white color blocks. The side seams are decorated with sinew-sewn seed beads, comprising of alternating box-in-a-box motifs. Along the beaded panels are tin cones stuffs with naturally dyed horse hair.

14.5" tall and 22" wide (each)

Ex Bruce Johnson, CO (lifetime personal collection); ex Steven Johnston, OH (collected 2020-2024).

Published: Richard Conn, Circles of the World: Traditional Art of the Plains Indians (Denver, CO: Denver Art Museum, 1982), p. 79, 42.

Exhibited: Denver Art Museum, CO, April 21-June 13, 1982; Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND, August 17-November 28, 1982; Museum of Fine Art, MA, December 122, 1983-February 26, 1984; the St Louis Art Museum, MO, Summer 1984; the DeYoung Museum, CA, Autumn 1984.

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