Auction: American Indian & Ethnographic Arts - 2408Location: BostonDate / Time: May 10, 2008 10:00AM
Description:
Central Plains Beaded and Quilled Hide Pipe Bag, Lakota, c. last quarter 19th century, yellow stained hide, with one row of geometric beadwork at opening, the panels and rawhide slats with quilled multicolored geometric designs, partially twisted fringe from the bottom, lg. 31 in.
Provenance: Ex-collection General Nelson A. Miles, the Heye Foundation, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, copy of paperwork included.
Estimate $8,000-12,000