Plains Beaded Hide Pictorial Child's Jacket

Plains Beaded Hide Pictorial Child's Jacket, Northern/Eastern Sioux, fourth quarter 19th century, the front fully beaded with human figures and birds, on a blue beaded ground, the collar fringed in white beaded, with floral beaded devices, the back fully beaded with four multicolored hand devices, a catlinite pipe, and central stacked geometric device, hide fringe from the bottom and on each arm, (minor bead loss, and two small areas of later bead repair), wd. 29, lg. 19 1/2 in.

Provenance: Private collection, Florida; descent through the family since circa 1918.
Estimate $8,000-12,000

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