A Western Sioux blanket strip Plains buckskin and coloured glass beads

A Western Sioux blanket strip

Plains

buckskin and coloured glass beads, with lazy stitch geometric decoration, the four roundels with a bead and bell, two with ribbon cloth, circa 1900,

148cm long,

stitched to a later blue trade blanket, 164cm x 93cm.

Provenance

Valerie and John Arieta, London.

Michael G. Johnson Collection, from the above Sept 1998.