LENAPE's BAGS

Bag.In the form of a square pocket with triangular flap backed with black cloth, the interior of bag with beige, brown and orange cotton fabric with geometric pattern, trimmed with satin and bordered with a row of white beads, decorated with pink, red and white beaded floral pattern against a blue beaded ground, twenty-four red tassels with metal tin cone suspensions on lower edge, the strap portion backed with navy, cream and green cotton fabric with floral design, three tabs at either end, trimmed with pink satin and bordered with a row of white beads, decorated on both sides with floral beaded pattern with different colored grounds, red, white, translucent against a blue beaded ground on proper left side, red, navy, white and translucent black and green against a pink beaded ground on the other side.
Long 11"¹/₄(28.5cm.), strap 56" ¹/₂(143.5cm.)
Provenance Originally collected by the Honorable Joshua Marsden Luce and passed through the family to the present owner. Joshua Marsden Luce was born August 18, 1830. In March 1857, he moved to Kansas, where he opened up a farm and operated a saw-mill until 1877. In 1858 he was Enrolling Clerk of the Territorial Council, and was afterwards for a time, assistant clerk for Honorable Hugh S. Wash, Sectretary of Kansas Territory, and became Acting Governor in 1859. He was then appointed Assistant Indian Agent for the Sauk and Fox. In 1866 he was elected a member of the Kansas House of Representatives and re-elected in 1870. In 1867 he was appointed clerk in the United States Senate committee on Public Lands for which he served one year. He then accepted a clerkship in the United States Treasury Department, a positon from which he resigned in less than a year and returned to his farm in Kansas. He was married at Centropolis, August 10, 1860 to Miss Susan Keithly. According to the family this bag has been in the family since the year 1860 or 1864. This lot will be offered with documentation to this effect provided by the family. Auctioon Christies 5 December 1996

Bag. Before the removals of 1840.

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Bag. 1860. L 29"

Bag. Long 23", wide 7,75", Kansas, 1860.

About Lenape's Bags Pic 2

Bag, c. 1850-1875,. Cotton cloth, silk ribbon, wool yarn, glass trade beads, sewn with thread. The Masco Collection.

EARLY BEADED HANGING PIECE. This is a gordian stitch looming hanging piece. It is fastened to a metal piece at the top. The thread that holds the beads are fastened to shells on the bottom, they go through the metal piece at the top and are tied together in the middle. It appears to be early Kiowa or Delaware Beadwork from the 1860's or 1870's. Long 8", wide 4" ¹/₄
BE003-EARLY BEADED HANGING PIECE.

"Delaware Style Otter bag" Otter Hide, Wool, Glass Beads, Quillwork, Brass and Silverwork, 1996

Bag. Joe Baker, 32" x 21", 1995

Bag. Joe Baker, 32"x21", 1997 Pic 2

A fringed hide sinew sewn beaded pipe bag, decorated with curvilinear forms radiating from a central point, blue, greasy yellow, translucent green and red beads. Possibly Creek or Delaware. Approximately 25" x 6". Some leather brittle, seam partially undone at top, one 1/2". hole one side, some bead loss.

Delaware bag, c. 1860s Delaware (?) Silk, wool, cotton, glass beads, cotton thread. The National Museum of the American Indian, collection of Charles and Valerie Diker DAC 710
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Choctaw/Delaware Bandolier Bag, c. 19th century. The beadwork on the strap is mounted on old trade cloth. The pouch is hide, with loomed beadwork on the front and trimmed in red trade cloth. The attached horn with incised designs was evidently used as a powder horn. Pouch is 6-1/2" wide x 6"tall. Strap is 21"

Bag. Silk and cotton pompoms, hide, cloth, glass and metal beads. Accessioned 1910. L 23-1/2" . Americam Museum of Natural History

In 1859 memders of the Texas Delaware presented this bag to Indian Agent Robert S. Neighbors. Cloth, beads. L 23-1/2" . Texas Memorial Museum

Delaware bag. The bag with leggings and moccasins was made by Delaware women for her husband. Collected in 1838 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Buckskin, cloth, quill, beads. 75 cm. x 23.3 cm. Peabody Museum of Archaelogy and Antropology

Contemporary bag. Joe Baker. The bag was initially "danced" at the 38th Annual Delaware Powwow, Copan, Oklahoma. Cloth, beads. L 32" . Collection of the artist

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