A Sioux Pictorial Beaded Hide Tobacco Bag

sinew sewn in numeorus shades against a white lazy-stitched glass beadwork ground, with narrow panels containing geometric elements around the opening and down each side, the rectangular section below with a depiction on each side of an Indian wearing a feather bonnet and holding a shield, one brandishing a sword, surmounted by additional depictions of an Indian standing with coup stick stitched on each side against the painted hide ground; an openwork section of hide strips below wrapped in porcupine quillwork.

The Native American Heritage, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1977, page 163, item 197