Ceremonial tobacco pouch

Pipe bag; Lakota; ca. 1870-1880 \nHide, glass beads, porcupine quills, pigments; l. 40 cm. (incl. fringe); w. 13 cm.\nRMV 3158-9; purchased from art dealer Leendert Van Lier, Amsterdam, 1954 \nThe oldest surviving Native American bags, documented "tobacco bags." were collected early in the eighteenth century in the Great lakes region, probably from the Ojibway, neighbors of the Lakota. The pouch s…