Description:
Pair of Plains Beaded Buffalo Hide Storage Bags, fourth quarter 19th century, each sinew sewn in yellow, green, black, and translucent red against a white glass beaded ground, with small diamond and pairs of confronted arrow-feathers enclosing crosses, concentric rectangles on the sides, trimmed with tin cone and black horsehair pendants, lg. 11 and 10 1/2 in.
Provenance: Private collection, Long Island, New York; Sotheby's, New York, May 23, 1995, Lot 427.
Estimate $4,000-6,000
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