Big Game, Big Stories: Montana's Hunting Heritage
Title:
BEADED BAG
Date:
ca. 1940-1960
Source:
Bequest of Arthur Copeland Hill
Object ID:
1998.04.193 a-e
Description:
"When we cracked the buffalo bones, pieces came off in splinters or slivers with sharp, tapered points. These our sewers used as awls, in puncturing the hides... We liked the stout sinew from big buffalo tendons." -Oliver Gebeau, Spokane, recounting story of James Finley, Kootenai, 1941
Tribe:
Plateau
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Beaded bag, 1998.04.193Beaded bag, 1998.04.193