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Dakota (Sioux) Tobacco bag. owned by "Sitting Bull." "Tatonka.I.yotonka". (Wyman Coll. Haupt del.)

length of bag 13 inches width " " 4½ " 1 " " bead strip 7/8 " depth " " " 4 3/8 " length of tassle 5 "

   "     "  fringe        11    "

The different divisions of the grat Dakota nation have each a slight although not necessarily consistent variation in the [?finish?] of their articles we illustrate this peculiarity in the tobacco bag of "Sitting Bull" and [?"Weckpapa"?] [crossed out: Dakota] "Sioux." Dakota. it comes to us from the collection of [?] Watts and Edmund Wyman of Evanston. The marked characteristic of this specimen is the presence of a buckskin fringe about the neck The fringe consists of five tails of buckskin about one and one eight inches wide and three and one half inches long these are edged with red and blue beads and finished with a [?] of tin cones carrying strips of red blanket. The presence of this four tailed fringe seems to be peculiar to the Dakota in the neighborhood of "Yankton of Standing Rock S. Dakota X The small pouch shown in chapter Dress and Ornament made by "Little Eyes" shows the same [?marks?] At the mouth of this tobacco bag is a row of white and blue bead work with a line of red: on the sides or edges of the bag are strips of beads eight inches long by seven eights wide the colors of these strips are white light and dark blue and red. below the strip is a [?] band of beads in stripe of dark blue and white. in the center is a rectangular figure of light blue. red and yellow. beads. The end being finished with a buckskin fringe. "Sitting Bull" no doubt to convince the white men of his allegience adopted for the colors of his beads the national color of the United States, with the admixture of yellow

X This "bag" was in 1887 sent by Sitting Bull as a present to F. W. Partridge at Tiffin Ohio. in consideration of services rendered a relative in the matter of a pension.