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Storage Bag

late 1800s

Native North America, Plains, Lakota

(Sioux)
Medium
Native-tanned hide, glass beads, dyed horsehair, tin cones, sinew thread
Measurements
Overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White 1937.850
Public Domain
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Bags like this were used to store personal items inside the tipi, where they doubled as pillows.

Description

Rectangular bags made of soft hide—known among early white traders as “possible bags” because they could hold “anything possible”—were used to store personal items inside the tipi, where they doubled as pillows. When encampments moved, the bags were carried on the side of a saddle, where their decoration could be admired.

Storage Bag

late 1800s

Native North America, Plains, Lakota (Sioux)

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