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Lakota Sioux Beaded Hide Pipe Bag, Floral Design
Lakota Sioux, northern Plains
1880s
Native hide, glass beads, sinew
Length with fringe 29 1/2" (74.9 cm)
Provenance: Earl Duncan, Kansas
Lakota pipe bags are among the most sacred objects in Plains material culture, understood as containers for the heart and holders of the sacred pipes and tobacco that symbolically contain the very heart of the people. Pipe bags are imbued with the power of the materials they hold, treated with respect and reverence, held in the left hand closer to the heart rather than tied to the body, and stored in places of honor. Each side of a Lakota pipe bag features an entirely different design, a convention that reflects the distinctive cultural artistic traditions encoded in the beadwork.
This bag is beaded on a white ground with polychrome floral and geometric patterning, the designs on each side distinctly composed in the manner characteristic of Lakota pipe bag production of the 1880s. The beaded panel extends across the full width of the bag with fringe below, the work sinew-sewn on native hide with the tanned surface visible at the top. Provenance traces to Earl Duncan of Kansas.
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Lakota Sioux, northern Plains
1880s
Native hide, glass beads, sinew
Length with fringe 29 1/2" (74.9 cm)
Provenance: Earl Duncan, Kansas
Lakota pipe bags are among the most sacred objects in Plains material culture, understood as containers for the heart and holders of the sacred pipes and tobacco that symbolically contain the very heart of the people. Pipe bags are imbued with the power of the materials they hold, treated with respect and reverence, held in the left hand closer to the heart rather than tied to the body, and stored in places of honor. Each side of a Lakota pipe bag features an entirely different design, a convention that reflects the distinctive cultural artistic traditions encoded in the beadwork.
This bag is beaded on a white ground with polychrome floral and geometric patterning, the designs on each side distinctly composed in the manner characteristic of Lakota pipe bag production of the 1880s. The beaded panel extends across the full width of the bag with fringe below, the work sinew-sewn on native hide with the tanned surface visible at the top. Provenance traces to Earl Duncan of Kansas.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.