Alan Kessler Gallery

Sioux beaded tobacco bag

A Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne) Beaded Tobacco Bag

Of hide construction with light red-toned ochre pigment, beaded on each face about the mouth and in a banded motif down the length of the bag, the lower quarter of the bag with opposing stepped triangles on a white ground, with twisted fringe along the lower edge.

length 35 1/2″

Circa 1870

Provenance:
Property from the Collection of Yoshi Miyake

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