Tobacco bag, pipe case, and pipe cleaner/tamper
date: label: Date created
content: 1875-1900
name: label: Culture/People
content: probably Southern Ute (attributed)
label: Collector
content: Frank S. Balster (Frederick S. Balstar), Non-Indian, 1861-1931
label: Previous owner
content: Frank S. Balster (Frederick S. Balstar), Non-Indian, 1861-1931
label: Seller
content: Frank S. Balster (Frederick S. Balstar), Non-Indian, 1861-1931
notes: label: Collection History
content: Collected by Frank S. Balster (1861-1931), a jeweler and photographer who worked in Durango and La Plata, Colorado, from about 1893 to 1917; purchased by MAI from Frank Balster in 1917.
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place: label: Place
content: Colorado; USA (inferred)
setName: label: See related items
content: Southern Ute
label: See related items
content: Pipes and Smoking
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 6/3056
label: Barcode
content: 063056.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipes and Smoking
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Tobacco bag, pipe case, and pipe cleaner/tamper
label: Media/Materials
content: Hide, glass bead/beads, glass pony beads, wood, metal cones, bird quills, deer hoof/hooves, horsehair, hide thong/babiche, cotton cloth, dye/dyes, sinew, pigment/pigments
label: Techniques
content: Sewn, lazy/lane stitch beadwork, quill-wrapped (flat), dyed, fringed, painted, carved
label: Dimensions
content: 66 x 17 cm