An Ojibwa pipe bag Northeast North America buckskin

An Ojibwa pipe bag

Northeast North America

buckskin, coloured glass beads and dyed quill, the four tongue top with sinew stitching having the remains of beads, the differing floral panels with an interlaced quill top border, the base with tassels, circa 1880,

71cm long.

Provenance

James T. Hooper, Arundel, collection no. H1571.

Bonhams, Tribal Art, London, 11 Dec 2003, lot 192.

Michael G. Johnson Collection.

Literature

Steven Phelps. Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, The James Hooper Collection, 1976, p.335, H.1571.

Michael G. Johnson. Ojibwa, People of Forests and Prairies, 2016, p.119.