A Plains Beaded Hide Paint Pouch

of rectangular form, painted overall with red pigment, sinew sewn on each side in dark blue and translucent red against a white glass beadwork ground, with a checkered hourglass design, surmounted by narrow channels on each side of linear designs in green, yellow and dark blue, a twisted fringe section below; the triangular flaps at the opening trimmed with tin cone pendants.

Private Montana collection

Acquired from John Molloy, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1989

John W. Painter, American Indian Artifacts: The John Painter Collection, 1991, pp. 61 – 62, no. 64, illustrated

John W. Painter, A Window On The Past, Volume Two, 2003, p. 45, no. 110, illustrated