A Blackfoot rifle case buckskin

A Blackfoot rifle case

buckskin, canvas, coloured glass beads and cloth, of tapering form with floret and triangle design panels either end and with long fringes, the circle beaded end with two tassels with interlaced red cloth ends, the inside edge inscribed BBI.73.PD,

103cm long.

Provenance

Collected in Montana, circa 1940.

Norman Feder, Curator Denver Art Museum, Colorado, USA.

The Ian West Collection.