Sold for:
$18,960
$18,960
Woodlands Quilled Otter Skin Pouch, Iowa, c. mid-19th century, with legs and tail decorated with multicolored quillwork, the body with quill-wrapped tin cone danglers with remnant red dyed animal hair, the tail lined with brass hawk bells and large brass bell terminal, traces of blue pigment, (quill loss), lg. 39 1/2 in. Provenance: Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation. Literature: Pleasing the Spirits , Douglas C. Ewing, 1982, p. 88.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2008-05-10
