beaded bag

unrecorded Cheyenne or Lakota artist, artist

beaded bag, late 1800s–1992

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: beading; horse hair; dyeing; buckskin; tin

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 37.5 x 34.5 cm height includes loop
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 14 3/4 x 13 9/16 in

Credit line: The Father Felix Nolte Collection from the Benedictine College Museum

Accession number: 2007.1507

Not on display

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"Passages: Persistent Visions of a Native Place," Sep-2011, Nancy Mahaney
This Cheyenne “possible” bag, named this for its many uses, is beaded using long rows of lazy stitch-a faster style of beading-and designed with three panels utilizing positive and negative space. This design, also seen on the Cheyenne parfleche, illustrates a continuation of tradition from paint to quillwork to beads; design traditions endured as mediums of expression changed.