Tribal Art & Antiquities - 19th September 2018
Lot 197
A Blackfoot rifle case buckskin
Estimate £500 - £600 | Hammer £1000
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Description
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.