Tipi Bag (Possible Bag)

Lakota (Teton Sioux)
Northern Plains
Plains

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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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