Tipi Bag (Possible Bag)
Lakota (Teton Sioux)
Northern Plains
Plains
about 1890-1910
Buffalo hide, glass beads, metal (tin) cones, sinew, cloth, string, dyed horsehair tufts
Overall: 15 1/4 × 19 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (38.7 × 48.9 × 3.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert G. Sands, Class of 1959, Tuck 1960
2010.45
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Bag
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Mr. and Mrs. Lou Ballard, Lexington, Massachusetts; to Mrs. Ballard; given to Robert G. Sand, 1955; given to present collection, 2010.
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