Plains (Northern), United States / Canada, North America
Accession Date:
21 Oct 1881
Notes:
From card: "Excellent specimen; buffalo skin tube, tapering to rear; stick in small skin cylinder at top, runs nearly fully length of quiver; remnant of suspension cord (skin) with remnant braided red and brown textile attached. Decoration primarily in quillwork at mouth; rear end; one long side and quill wrapped cut fringe. The side dec. consists of 4 rosettes, each diminishing in diam. (front one to back); largest 3 1/2" diam; smallest 2 7/8" Technique of these quilled rosettes fine wrapping of horsehair base in spiral. Background colors - natural quills; designs in dark brown, orange and red' each rosette is edged with one continuous line of sky blue pony beads. Another rosette covers read end of quiver (no bead edging.)"
Decoration includes quill-wrapped horsehair, per p. 67 in Holm, Bill, 2001, "Quill-Wrapped Horsehair: Two Rare Quilling Techniques", pp. 53-68 in Feest, Christian F. 2001. Studies in American Indian art: a memorial tribute to Norman Feder. Altenstadt, Germany: European Review of Native American Studies.
