A SIOUX BEADED HIDE SIDE BAG. c. 1890...

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A SIOUX BEADED HIDE SIDE BAG
c. 1890
sinew sewn and lane-stitched in various shades of glass seed beads, decorated on the front with crosses, diamonds, triangles and forked motifs, and on the reverse with banded beadwork along the sides and "feather" motifs in each corner, trimmed with hide thongs wrapped with red-dyed porcupine quills and metal cones inserted with red-dyed horsehair

Length: 12 inches, excluding attachments


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