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Yakima Pictorial Saddle Bags

Currency:USD Category:American Indian Art / Art - Bead Work Start Price:1,000.00 USD Estimated At:14,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD
Yakima Pictorial Saddle Bags
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Bold, white beaded elk design on either end of these large saddle bags. On native tanned hide, with red trade cloth panels on each end, and trimmed in trade cloth down one edge. The pictorial beaded panel features an impressive bull elk, and is framed in bands of straight and zigzagged beadwork in green, yellow, white and three shades of blue. Cloth and velvet trim, short fringe trim, and long fringe at both ends. Circa 1900-1910, 110" long x 13" wide when laid flat.
Provenance: The Bob and Lora Sandroni Collection
Literature: A Beading Heart, pictured on page 29.