Lot: 92

88e vente aux enchères Tribal Art

Deux petits sacs

Amérique du Nord, Iroquois

Provenance Taille Prix d’appel / Prix d'Estimation
Christian Pysik, Aachen, Germany Cet objet n’est plus disponible.

a) small cloth bag, embroidered with coloured beads, m: 7 cm x 7,5 cm; b) rectangular leather bag with mirror inside, Plains, circular hide emblem attached, m: 9 cm x 11,5 cm, both with slight traces of usage.
Plains Indian warriors often kept their coveted trade mirrors in a special pouch. Mirrors were used to apply face pigment before going on the infamous "war trail".


Brant Mackley Gallery (ed.), Tribal Masterworks from America and Beyond, Philadelphia 2008, p. 31