Sold for:
$17,775
$17,775
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 and remnant red animal hair, with brass bell at the tail tip, traces of blue-green pigment, (quill loss), lg. 47 in. Provenance: Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation. Literature: Pleasing the Spirits , 1982, Douglas C. Ewing, p. 88.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2008-05-10
