Featured I didn't get any baskets but I got THIS instead!

was told that this is a tobacco or pipe bag..Apache from the 1920's to 1930's. The beads are insanely tiny! I can only imaging the many hours needed to made this.
I thought it was a good deal at $75.00.
Whatcha think?

 

Similar one's here ...

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/price-result/1930s-apache-beaded-deerskin-drawstring-pouch/


https://www.icollector.com/3-Apache-Beaded-Bags_i26543938

 

I have seen a number of these small beaded bags - native tanned leather (buckskin), drawstring, with the long beaded fringe - identified as Apache. There is an article by Richard Green in Whispering Wind: Vol. 38, Issue 6, 2009, that discusses this type of bag. Unfortunately the link only provides a preview and not the full text.
https://go.gale.com/ps/anonymous?p=...5411725&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=fulltext

Quoting from that preview -
"The four beaded bags illustrated here represent a type made for sale in substantial numbers by certain Apache groups in the early decades of the twentieth century and marketed by the Mohonk Lodge of Colony, Oklahoma. Rectangular in shape, with a drawstring opening and heavy bead fringe, the style was probably influenced by the commercially available Euro-American purses of the day, as well as the 1920s' fashion for bead fringing on European-style women's clothing and accessories.
Apache and Comanche examples were marketed by the Mohonk Lodge, and appear in their printed catalog dating from the late 1920s (Figs. 6 & 7).
The Mohonk Lodge was a well-known Indian trading post located in Cheyenne-Arapaho country just south of Weatherford, Oklahoma. It was a philanthropic institution established by missionaries of the Reformed Dutch Church of America around 1895 as a means of helping Indians sell their craftwork to the non-Native market. As such, it was the first cooperative for Native American beadworkers, under the auspices of its manager, Reese Kincaid. According to the Mohonk Lodge catalog, Apache rectangular drawstring bags with a heavy bead fringe were available in a variety of sizes ranging from6x8inches to larger examples measuring up to 10 12 inches."

A separate image search for "Apache beaded bags Mohonk Lodge" turns up these illustrations from the article (although they are not included in the preview) -

 

I forgot to say, it would not be a pipe bag. Those are usually longer. As these were made for sale, the buyers could have put anything they wanted in them, or just kept them for display as curios.