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Small clay "elbow" style pipe made for trade with a human effigy on bowl
European
Small clay "elbow" style pipe made for trade with a human effigy on bowl
European

Beaded strike-a-light bag with leather fringe on the bottom of the bag and on the flap as a tie / Native American; Cheyenne

Essay/Description

This is a beaded strike-a-light bag. The flap has a beaded band along the opening that has a white background with blue rectangles. The front of the bag has a beaded white background with a blue line bordering the geometric design in the center. The geometric design is made of green triangles edged in red, red flag designs, and a red rectangle surrounded by blue triangles. The bottom is edged with metal cone jingles. There is a long leather tie at the top, four leather strips from the bottom corners, and two leather ties in the center of the flap.

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Title(s): 
Beaded strike-a-light bag with leather fringe on the bottom of the bag and on the flap as a tie
Culture: 
Native American; Cheyenne
Date: 
19th century
Period: 
Historic
Place: 
Great Plains, United States of America
Materials/Techniques: 
commercially-tanned leather, semi-tanned leather, sinew, glass beads, tinned-iron tinklers
Classification: 
Object Type: 
Accession No: 
84.561
Department: 
Not On View

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