Pipe & Tobacco Pouch
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 May 1973
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Vivian R. Boardman
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Vertically rectangular buckskin pouch with red and tan quill wrapped basal fringe ending in cut skin fringe 14 cm. L. Two thirds covered with white seed bead background in which are elaborate geometric figures in dark blue, etc. Also beaded diamonds above and on one side a small green and orange beaded pouch (unusual feature). Long quill wrapped strips hang from top opening. Sinew and cord sewn. Identification [as Teton Dakota] and dating of about 1900 by John Ewers."
label: Notes
content: Beadwork design on one side resembles two overlaid swastikas. Note that many cultures around the world, including North America, used the swastika as a positive symbol (sometimes representing the four directions, or the whirlwind ...), long before the National Socialist (Nazi) party came to power in Germany in the 1920s. It disappeared from use after it became negatively viewed because of its association with the Nazi party.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Aug 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains Northern, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Teton (Lakota)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 305336
label: USNM Number
content: E415796-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe Bag