Storage Bag
late 1800s
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Storage Bag, late 1800s. Native North America, Plains, Lakota (Sioux). Native-tanned hide, glass beads, dyed horsehair, tin cones, sinew thread; overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White 1937.850 Bags like this were used to store personal items inside the tipi, where they doubled as pillows.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Leather
- Formatted Medium
- Native-tanned hide, glass beads, dyed horsehair, tin cones, sinew thread
- Dimensions
- Overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1937.850
- Credit Line
- Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White
- Exhibitions
- Gallery 231 - Native North American Textile Rotation, Native North America (Native North America rotation)
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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