Pipe Bag
ClassificationsClothing and Adornments-bags, pouches, and purses
Culture
Great Lakes
Culture
Ojibwe
Made AtNorth America
MediumLeather and beads
Dimensions24 1/4 × 6 1/2 in. (61.6 × 16.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Junius & Angeline Holte
Object number86.47.9
DescriptionPartially beaded Pipe Bag on leather, 17"l., with fringe @ 8"l. Floral "S" curve, 2-thread pattern embroidered on white bead ground attached to leather sleeve on both sides, executed in greens, yellow, pink, blues, red & white seed beads. Flowers attached to dark blue stem & contrasting colors indicating earlier period. Geometrically patterned edging at rim of top section. Floral stitch with 2 threads - one laid down with beads in curvilinear pattern, the other used to anchor beads. Attached tag reads, "Quiver Pipe Bag/Chip." Object collected by donor's mother Henrietta Lunde Holte.On View
Not on viewCollections
c. 1920