Leather Bag, Beaded
name: label: Collector
content: Maj. James M. Bell
notes: label: Notes
content: Hide bag with broad bands of lazy stitch beadwork in geometric patterns on top flap and side seams, ornamented with metal cones around horsehair tufts. 24" (61 cm). (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
label: Notes
content: Dr. JoAllyn Archambault, Standing Rock Sioux, NMNH Department of Anthropology, identified this bag as possibly of Sioux manufacture.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 028804
label: USNM Number
content: EL40-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Saddle Bag