Wonderful Sioux Pictorial Beaded Jacket

Lot 257: Sioux Pictorial Beaded Jacket

Wonderful Sioux beaded and fringed jacket or scout coat. On native tanned hide, with extraordinary pictorial elements on both front and back. With fringe and beads at the seams, and fastened with U.S. military brass buttons. Wonderful pictorial beadwork includes pipes, morning stars, dragon flies, buffalo, birds, and other symbols and images. Areas of red ochre pigment along shoulders and in protected areas. Beaded in a geometric design at the color, cuffs, down the arms and along the bottom. Sinew sewn. A fine example. Circa 1890s. 

Pictured: “A Beading Heart - The Bob and Lora Sandroni Collection,” page 130.

Brian Lebel's Old West Auction - June 11, 2016
Sold $69,000

Impressive Saddle Bags

Large and finely beaded Northern Plains/Sioux saddle bags. Red and blue bars on a white field with red and blue bordered, stepped triangles in dark green. Edges are beaded and fringed along the back of the bags. On native tanned hide. Beaded panels measure 11 1/4" x 11". These impressive bags are 80" in length overall, which includes the 16" bottom fringe. 

Lot 164: Sioux Fringed Saddle Bags

Brian Lebel's Old West Auction - June 11, 2016
Sold $10,890