SOLD Beaded Strike-Lite Bag or Medicine Bag

[Polecat_Tom]

Beaded Strike-Lite Bag

Chrome tanned deer strike-lite or neck bag. Double stitched by hand with artificial sinew. Beads are old Italian size 11 - White Lined Rose, Cobalt Blue, Turquoise, Greasy Yellow, Corniola D (white lined red).

Pattern is lazy stich with waxed nylon beading thread. Ties on back can be extended to turn this into a neck bag or can be hung from belt. Bag size is 3 ½” wide by 4 ½” high. Overall length including tin cones is 6”.

Price $65 US Postal Money Order, price includes shipping and insurance.

 

[Polecat_Tom]

Price reduction, now $50

 

[D.Summers]

That is a fine pouch, Polecat Tom. Fine beadwork! Now I've got to talk myself out of buying it!!

 

[Polecat_Tom]

It's Father's Day and you know you want it. Go ahead and get it.
Polecat Tom

 

[D.Summers]

I do want it. And I do have six children. Do you reckon you'd take a personal check? Also I'm surprised the moderators haven't told you to put a note with your name and date, etc, next to that fine piece!

 

[Polecat_Tom]

I did miss the date and name note on this one.

 

[D.Summers]

Is this just part of your fine collection, or do you know who made this?

 

[golden sky]

what kind of medicine did the natives put in that bag?

 

[Polecat_Tom]

Is this just part of your fine collection, or do you know who made this?

This is some beadwork that I did. As I go through museums and find pieces that I like I will photograph and make a reasonable copy. This is just something relaxing that I do.
Tom

 

[Polecat_Tom]

what kind of medicine did the natives put in that bag?

A personal Medicine Bag was not for healing others but to maintain personal harmony with the physical, spiritual, and supernatural. A youth might have a small Medicine Bag but as he added experiences, he also added things to his bag over the years, so he might need to replace the bag with one larger in size. Things that were added would include items related to a vision quest, stones, fetishes, sweet grass, sage, bones, hair or fur, roots, leaves or feathers. Each of the items had a special significance in the life of the owner of the bag.

 

[golden sky]

sounds interesting what native peoples used these?

 

[Polecat_Tom]

sounds interesting what native peoples used these?

To my knowledge these were very common with the plains Indians.

 

[Brian Anderson]

Nice job / the colors remind me of some southern Ute work

 

[Polecat_Tom]

Thank you, good eye for the colors.

 

[Polecat_Tom]

SOLD