Beaded Hide Awl Case, circa 1890 22774 Original black and white photograph

Original black and white photograph by Mark Sink

original circa 1970 drawing by Nebraska artist Edgar Britton

5 inches in height

parfleches served as one of the major mediums through which Plains Indian tribes could develop their long-standing tradition of painting

Early vintage 1880s landscape painting of trees in Spring near Denver

Beaded Hide Awl Case, circa 1890 22774 Original black and white photograph19th century Sioux awl case constructed of native tanned hide and wrapped in trade beads in a banded pattern of pony trader and dark blue, whiteheart red, white and greasy yellow. Quill wrapped suspensions with tin cone tinklers and horse hair,