Osage/Southern Cheyenne. <em>Saddle Bag</em>, late 19th–early 20th century. Buffalo hide, wool cloth, beads, dye, 13 1/4 × 1 × 76 in. (33.7 × 2.5 × 193 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1911, Museum Collection Fund, 11.694.9009. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 11.694.9009_SL1.jpg)

Osage/Southern Cheyenne. Saddle Bag, late 19th–early 20th century. Buffalo hide, wool cloth, beads, dye, 13 1/4 × 1 × 76 in. (33.7 × 2.5 × 193 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1911, Museum Collection Fund, 11.694.9009. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 11.694.9009_SL1.jpg)

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Saddle Bag

Arts of the Americas

CULTURE Osage/Southern Cheyenne

MEDIUM Buffalo hide, wool cloth, beads, dye

Place Made: Pahuska, Oklahoma, United States

DATES late 19th–early 20th century

DIMENSIONS 13 1/4 × 1 × 76 in. (33.7 × 2.5 × 193 cm) mount: 50 in. (127 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS Arts of the Americas

ACCESSION NUMBER 11.694.9009

CREDIT LINE Museum Expedition 1911, Museum Collection Fund

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Hide saddle bag with a long hide fringe on the ends and short fringe along the sides. The border of the bag is red felt banded in beads on top and bottom in a red and blue diamond pattern on a white background. Above the border is a zigzag beaded outline. On the body of the saddlebag are beaded diamond bursts with rawhide streamers. The saddlebag is sewn of sections of buck skin with a cut opening and short fringes along the length of the bag and long fringes along the ends.

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Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains

MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view

CAPTION Osage/Southern Cheyenne. Saddle Bag, late 19th–early 20th century. Buffalo hide, wool cloth, beads, dye, 13 1/4 × 1 × 76 in. (33.7 × 2.5 × 193 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1911, Museum Collection Fund, 11.694.9009. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 11.694.9009_SL1.jpg)

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