01-24-200901-24-2009
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2442Boston
January 24, 2009 10:00 AMCalender
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Central Plains Beaded Buffalo Hide Bow Case and Quiver

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$23,700$20,000
Auction: American Indian & Ethnographic Arts - 2442Location: BostonDate / Time: January 24, 2009 10:00AM

Description:

Central Plains Beaded Buffalo Hide Bow Case and Quiver, Lakota (?),c. third quarter 19th century, detailed with fringe and red trade cloth strips, the beaded panels with black and "greasy" yellow box and border devices on a pony-trader blue ground, the double curve sinew-backed bow painted white and yellow with red dots, original twisted sinew string, decorated with two sections of quill-wrapped hide bindings, with four metal-tipped arrows remaining, lg. of bow case 35, lg. of bow 45 in.
Estimate $15,000-20,000

Keywords

case 35 , Bow Case, border devices, metal-tipped arrows remaining