Tribal Art & Antiquities - 19th September 2018

Lot 214

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

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £550

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Description

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.