Artist:Osage/Southern Cheyenne
Medium: Buffalo hide, wool cloth, beads, dye
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Dates:late 19th–early 20th century
Dimensions: 13 1/4 × 1 × 76 in. (33.7 × 2.5 × 193 cm) mount: 50 in. (127 cm)
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Accession Number: 11.694.9009
Image: 11.694.9009_SL1.jpg,
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.