Sold for:
$23,700
$23,700
Central Plains Beaded Buffalo Hide Bow Case and Quiver, Lakota (? ), c. third quarter 19th century, detailed with fringe and red trade cloth strips, the beaded panels with black and "greasy" yellow box and border devices on a pony-trader blue ground, the double curve sinew-backed bow painted white and yellow with red dots, original twisted sinew string, decorated with two sections of quill-wrapped hide bindings, with four metal-tipped arrows remaining, lg. of bow case 35, lg. of bow 45 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2009-01-24
