Pipe bag, Oglala. B.
South Dakota | Pine Ridge Reservation. Buckskin. Large; decorated with dyed porcupine quills. Upper two-thirds sewed into buckskin in red, white and purple lines. Some pendants of red down attached with metal bangles. At base, square of rawhide strips covered with quills in pink, white, orange and purple. Long buckskin fringe at bottom. Designs differ to front and back. Those on one side very much faded; other side slightly. Length 105 cm. Width 25 cm. Purchased from Robert Frazier, 1939. Penn Mus.