Pipe or Tobacco Bag
c. 1870
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Pipe or Tobacco Bag, c. 1870. Native North America, Plains, Tsitsistas (Cheyenne). Native-tanned hide, yellow pigment, glass beads, red trade cloth, tin cones, sinew thread; overall: 71.1 x 12.7 cm (28 x 5 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White 1937.871 Glass and metal beads were imported from Europe.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Leather
- Formatted Medium
- Native-tanned hide, yellow pigment, glass beads, red trade cloth, tin cones, sinew thread
- Medium
- native-tanned, hide, yellow, pigment, glass, beads, red, trade, cloth, tin, cones, sinew, thread
- Dimensions
- Overall: 71.1 x 12.7 cm (28 x 5 in.)
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1937.871
- 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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