Native American Beaded Bag

Native American Beaded Bag

Native American History

Native American beaded bag. Square bag made of leather with tassels across the bottom, two handles at top with dark colored beading on ends. Bag outlined in black beads and the front of the bag is outlined with green beads. Front of the bag has a beaded pattern with a white background and navy and red beaded triangular designs.
Label included with bag reads: "This beaded bag was made by an Arapaho in the early 1900s. It was raffled in Oklahoma City in 1915, over 100 tickets were sold at 10 cents a piece."

University of Central Oklahoma Laboratory of History Museum

1915

Pearl Huffman

Bag

1915.005.001

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