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Object Name	pipe bag
Tribe	Sioux, Lakota
Object Type	bag or pouch
Description	fully beaded base; quilled & fringed; white background beads w/2 main designs of central yellow diamond with green pendant triangles off tips, which also have red crossbars Design between each of these diamond motifs is composed of two blue, yellow and red rectangles that are linked by a blue band. Bottom solidly beaded while narrow bars of beading run to top. Red, white, and blue beading at mouth. 2 fringes; first a quill wrapped, rawhide fringe (L=12.5cm), then a leather fringe (L approx.=46cm). Attached to rawhide. Quills were once red, green, and purple. Short fringe and more quilled thongs and dentalium shells attached at mouth.
Museum	University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska
Catalog Number	A06243
Primary Material	leather
Primary Decorative	glass beads
Secondary Decorative	quills
Subject	pipe and related
Year of Coll/Manuf	1870 ca.
Length	47 cm
Width	15 cm
UNL Curatorial Comments	Given to Turner by Lone Wolf, Oglala Sioux - Turner's story was that he came upon wood choppers in cottonwood canyon back of Ft. McPherson ready to burn Lone Wolf at stake. Turner rescued him. (stylistic identification by T.Myers 5/96)
Materials	leather, glass beads, quills, dentalium
Provenance	Major W. J. Turner
State of Coll/Manuf	Nebraska
Collection	Plains Tribes