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Unknown Maker, Apsáalooke (Crow)

Saddle Bag

Maker

Unknown Maker, Apsáalooke (Crow)

Culture

Apsáalooke (Crow), Native North American

Title

Saddle Bag

Year

late 1800s

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

porcupine quill, leather

Geography

Place Made: Montana

Dimensions

31.1 cm (12 1/4 inches) (length) without fringe

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

43.121

Type

Exhibition History

Repair and Design Futures
Oct 05, 2018 – Jun 30, 2019

Label copy

Though made of textiles rather than hide, the Maison Martin Margiela Artisanal jacket-fabricated as a unique, explicitly labor-intensive garment-has an exterior of bandaging fabric, a material associated with healing, wrapped as a protective skin around the body of a vintage wool jacket. The leather pouch, probably Cheyenne, was used for carrying medicinal herbs. It shows reverence by using every bit of the skin, evident in the piecing together of various bits of hide repurposed from another object. [See also 2015.67]

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Tombstone

Unknown Maker, Apsáalooke (Crow)
Saddle Bag, late 1800s
Hide with porcupine-quill, glass-bead, and feather embellishment; pieced
31.1 cm (12 1/4 inches) (length) without fringe
Museum Works of Art Fund 43.121

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