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Artworks
UNIDENTIFIED CREE ARTIST
Beaded Pipe Bag, 19th centurytanned hide, glass beads, and thread, 16 x 4.5 x 0.5 in (40.6 x 11.4 x 1.3 cm), dimensions variable, measurements reflect dimensions with fringe / without strap;
decorated to both sides with a scene of a travelling family and a floral arrangement.
LOT 70
ESTIMATE: $2,000 — $3,000
PRICE REALIZED: $2,040.00We can’t help wondering whether this small and very charming pipe bag was made for — or perhaps by — a child. It has a delightfully naive look, with an...We can’t help wondering whether this small and very charming pipe bag was made for — or perhaps by — a child. It has a delightfully naive look, with an almost folk-art feeling to it. Although precise details are few, on one beaded panel, above the floral element, both the man leading the saddled horse and the figure of the woman seem to be in European dress. The horse appears to be set on a base almost as if it were a toy. On the other beaded panel, the floral arrangement seems to be superimposed on an almost ghost-like spirit figure with raised arms. Unusual square shapes populate both panels in almost random arrangements. Otherwise, the bag seems to conform to a more standard pipe bag design.
References: For a similar example see Barbara A. Hail, Hau, Kóla!: The Plains Indian Collection at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, (Bristol, RI: Haffenreffer Museum, Brown University, 1980/83), cat. 236.
Provenance
An Ontario Collection.
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