“Strike-a-lite” Bag

Sioux people, Plains region, Native American

1910

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Four spruce root lugs, one broken. Canvas patch. Circular spruce root patch made like the bottom of a basket. Alternate plaiting and twining weave. No colors.
A pair of silver earrings, blossom design with six fluted ovate part with a six petaled top loosely attached and a four petaled bottom soldered on
Silver hoop with spiral grooves at ends
Wearing blanket in basic shape of a rectangle, with bottom side of rectangle in a shallow downward V-shape; long fringe from warp threads extend from bottom. Bilaterally symmetrical patterns fill the space, composed of abstracted animal faces and other zoomorphic design elements.