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Cree Beaded Tobacco Bag,

Currency:USD Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:800.00 - 1,000.00 USD
Cree Beaded Tobacco Bag,
all thread-sewn, with a notched throat decorated with a lane of black and white seed beads, margins with mauve and black beads, and main decorative panels of floral motifs in translucent red, mauve, blue, turquoise, light and deep blues, with highlights of greasy yellow; leaves of various shades of green seed beads, the margins have rectangles in same shades found on the main panels. Bag terminates in an added fringe of buckskin. The throat of the bag is rubbed with yellow ochre; 28.0" long including fringe x 6.25" at widest point. Beads quite dirty, leather soft and pliable.