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Storage Bag
late 1800s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Rectangular bags made of soft hide—known among early white traders as “possible bags” because they could hold “anything possible”—were used to store personal items inside the tipi, where they doubled as pillows. When encampments moved, the bags were carried on the side of a saddle, where their decoration could be admired.
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Details
- Title: Storage Bag
- Date Created: late 1800s
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.)
- Type: Leather
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.850
- Medium: Native-tanned hide, glass beads, dyed horsehair, tin cones, sinew thread
- Fun Fact: Bags like this were used to store personal items inside the tipi, where they doubled as pillows.
- Department: Textiles
- Culture: America, Native North American, Plains, Lakota (Sioux) people, Post contact
- Credit Line: Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White
- Collection: T - Native North American
- Accession Number: 1937.850
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