Pipe Bag

Provenance

Father Peter J. Powell (1928-2022), Chicago, by 1977 [on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago from Feb. 24, 1977, incoming receipt, RX10969; copy in curatorial object file; Mauer 1977, 168–69]; by descent to his estate, 2022; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.

Pipe Bag

Cheyenne

c. 1865

Accession Number

122843

Medium

Leather, glass beads, and sinew

Dimensions

41.3 × 14.6 × 3 cm (16 5/16 × 5 3/4 × 1 3/16 in.); With fringe: H.: 67 cm (26 7/16 in.)

Classification

beadwork

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of the Powell Family in memory of their parents Father Peter Powell and Virginia Raisch Powell