Two Northern Plains Beaded Hide Paint Bags

Description:

Two Northern Plains Beaded Hide Paint Bags, Sioux, c. 1890s, the smaller with simple beaded designs on both sides with beaded handle and traces of red-ochre inside bag, the other with same beaded design on each side, quill-wrapped danglers and red pigment inside bag, lg. 4 and 6 1/2 in.

Provenance: Private collection, Long Island, New York; Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Estimate $1,000-1,500


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