id: 117283 accession number: 1937.850 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.850 updated: 2022-03-03 10:00:18.390000 Storage Bag, late 1800s. America, Native North American, Plains, Lakota (Sioux) people, Post contact. Native-tanned hide, glass beads, dyed horsehair, tin cones, sinew thread ; overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White 1937.850 title: Storage Bag title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: late 1800s creation date earliest: 1880 creation date latest: 1899 current location: 231 Native North American creditline: Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White copyright: --- culture: America, Native North American, Plains, Lakota (Sioux) people, Post contact technique: Native-tanned hide, glass beads, dyed horsehair, tin cones, sinew thread department: Textiles collection: T - Native North American type: Leather find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Gallery 231- Native North American Textile Rotation opening date: 2014-08-26T04:00:00 Gallery 231- Native North American Textile Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26, 2014-July 29, 2015). title: Native North America (Native North America rotation) opening date: 2021-12-04T05:00:00 Native North America (Native North America rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 4, 2021-December 4, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: Bags like this were used to store personal items inside the tipi, where they doubled as pillows. digital description: wall 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.850/1937.850_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.850/1937.850_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.850/1937.850_full.tif