A Cheyenne quirt or riding whip with a wood shaft with brass tacks and painted horseshoes and lines

A Cheyenne quirt or riding whip

with a wood shaft with brass tacks and painted horseshoes and lines, a buckskin wrist strap with blue, red and yellow glass beads with a forked end with tassels and red paint, the buckskin lash with red paint and cloth and quill binding, with a handwritten label Sioux Riding Whip /25,

46.5cm long.

Provenance

James T. Hooper, The Totems Museum, Arundel, Sussex, UK, 1963.

The Ian West Collection.