Woodlands Quilled Otter Skin Pouch

Description:

Woodlands Quilled Otter Skin Pouch, Iowa, c. mid-19th century, with legs and tail decorated with multicolored quillwork, the body with quill-wrapped tin cone danglers and remnant red animal hair, with brass bell at the tail tip, traces of blue-green pigment, (quill loss),lg. 47 in.

Provenance: Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation.

Literature: Pleasing the Spirits, 1982, Douglas C. Ewing, p. 88.
Estimate $10,000-15,000

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