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Calf Child's tobacco bag.
About six years ago I purchased a beaded tobacco bag (Photo 1) from a friend in Germany. It appeared to be typically Blackfoot, with a front beaded section with stepped triangles, a lazy-stitch (lane-stitch) margin and a beaded rolled edge. The central design in the edge beading being symmetrical on adjacent sides, a Blackfoot trait.
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This buckskin tobacco bag construction consists of an upper section with a curved, castellated top edge (Photo 2) with edge beading, and central section with a bottom double fringe consisting of 26 fringes front and back with basket (cane) beads strung on. The main area is executed in applique technique beadwork. A buckskin thong is tied about four inches from the top edge. The seed beaded section appears to be all Czech beads, which would probably date the bag no earlier than 1905. The green and turquoise blue beads are transparent and most beads appear to be size 12/0. Integrated into the beadwork designs are the letters "H" and "M", or more probably an "E" turned sideways. The use of letters in beadwork occurs occasionally in Canadian Plains work and their symmetry may be the result of copying commercial signs or letters from seed/grain bags and similar objects or possibly the initials of the maker or owner. Seed/grain bag material was often used as the foundation for beadwork during this period.
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Sometime later, while looking through an old The American Indian Hobbyist magazine, there was an article by Richard Conn (1958), who was then Curator of the Denver Art Museum, there is a photograph (Photo 3) of Chief Calf Child (1) with a tobacco bag held by his belt, which looked to be ...
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