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Dakota. (Sioux. Match pouch. (Haupt Coll & del) length 5½ inches width 2 5/8 " tin cones 7/8 "

Dakota (Sioux) Match.pouch (Haupt coll. & del) length 5 ¼ inches width at top 2 3/4 "

  "     "  bottom 3½ "

The other typical forms of match pouches are rectangular and have a much shortened flap: the forms with the long flap is rare and used by dignitaries. The last specimen is from the Brulé agency. and consists of a buckskin pouch of rectangular form the lower edge is elongated at the outer edge into a tail the entire face of the pouch under the flap is covered with leads an unusual circumstance as they are usually not beaded under the flap. The flap is shut and like the face beaded the beads being put on in [?] and it would seem that in ornamenting this pouch the squaw wished to use up all the odds and ends at hand as the colors are jumbled together without any regularity at all. blue, yellow, red. White, black and garnet beads put on as if they had been rained out of a sieve. The linen edge of the pouch is finished with a fringe of tin cones suspended to strips of buckskin at the point of the pouch are four cones of tin bearing horse hair dyed red. In the rear is a thong to secure the pouch to the belt. This is a more modern make. The second match pouch of Dakota fabrication is much older and was procured in 1881 but was made some years prior to that date: It is of thin raw hide