id:			117311
accession number:	1937.871
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.871
updated:		2022-03-03 10:00:18.538000

Pipe Bag, c. 1870. America, Native North American, Plains, Tsitsistas (Cheyenne) people, Post-Contact. Native-tanned hide with yellow pigment, glass beads, red trade cloth, tin cones, sinew thread; overall: 71.1 x 12.7 cm (28 x 5 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White 1937.871

title:				Pipe Bag
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creation date:			c. 1870
creation date earliest:		1865
creation date latest:		1875
current location:		231 Native North American
creditline:			Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White
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culture:	America, Native North American, Plains, Tsitsistas (Cheyenne) people, Post-Contact
technique:	Native-tanned hide with yellow pigment, glass beads, red trade cloth, tin cones, sinew thread
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Native North American
type:		Leather
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measurements: Overall: 71.1 x 12.7 cm (28 x 5 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Gallery 231- Native North American Textile Rotation
	opening date:   2014-08-26T04:00:00
	<i>Gallery 231- Native North American Textile Rotation</i>. 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
	<i>Native North America (Native North America rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 4, 2021-December 4, 2022).

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Beadwork is one of the most famous and admired of 19th-century Plains decorative techniques, and the tradition continues today. It is created exclusively by women—in the past, some of them joked they could bead anything that stood still—and descends from an older technique involving embroidery with the dyed quills of porcupines or birds. Small European glass and metal beads eventually replaced quillwork, perhaps because they offered a wider range of more intense, lustrous colors. Among some Plains groups, bead workers belonged to craft societies and, as today, their most ambitious creations brought them honor and distinction.
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