Tipi Bag or Possible Bag
ca. 1860-1900
Sioux
Arts of the Americas
Vivid blue captures the eye in these Salish or Kootenai child’s moccasins and Sioux storage bag. The blue seed beads on both objects are made of glass colored with cobalt blue. Native women made all the clothing and furnishings for their families and eagerly adopted beads as decorative embellishments because of the vast array of colors and greater convenience.
- Maker/Artist
- Sioux
- Classification
- Furnishing
- Formatted Medium
- Hide, beads, tin cones, horse hair
- Locations
- Place made: Plains, United States
- Dimensions
- 15 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (39.4 x 52.1 cm)
- Departments
- Arts of the Americas
- Accession Number
- X1111.1
- Credit Line
- Brooklyn Museum Collection
- Exhibitions
- Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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