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Artworks
UNIDENTIFIED CREE ARTIST
Beaded Pipe Bag, c. 1870hide, glass beads, and thread, 30 x 6.5 x 2.25 in (76.2 x 16.5 x 5.7 cm)
unsigned;
contained in a custom-made acrylic and canvas display case.$ 2,800.00The earliest North American indigenous “tobacco bags” were collected in the 18th century in the Great Lakes region. Towards the end of the 19th the proportions of pipe bags became...The earliest North American indigenous “tobacco bags” were collected in the 18th century in the Great Lakes region. Towards the end of the 19th the proportions of pipe bags became fairly uniform, and were made and used over a large portion of the central continent. This lovely Cree pipe bag with a scalloped top and long fringe, features two panels of free-form beaded floral designs on white backgrounds.
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. 235.
Provenance
By repute: from the Collection of the Marquis of Londonderry;
Christie's, London, 3 December 1991, Lot 15, illustrated;
Private Collection, Toronto.
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