Featured Apache (????) beaded bag

Discussion in 'Tribal Art' started by Yan Seiner, Nov 29, 2024 at 9:31 AM.

  1. Yan Seiner

    Yan Seiner Active Member

    I bought this bag in a junk shop in Alamogordo, NM. I was told at the time that it was sold to the shop by an Apache family.

    It's doeskin, with beautiful workmanship. All the stitching was done by hand.

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  2. 2manybooks

    2manybooks Well-Known Member

    The design is similar to other, older bags I have seen that are identified as Apache. Many were made in the 1920's, to be sold at various tourist destinations.
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    http://www.portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=21942;type=101

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    https://www.icollector.com/APACHE-BEADED-BAG_i9265012

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    https://www.icollector.com/Apache-Beaded-Bag-circa-1920s_i13429982

    Yours is more recent, perhaps not much older than when you bought it. The leather appears to be commercially tanned deerskin. On traditional native tanned/brain tanned leather the hair/dermis/skin side is removed, leaving a suede-like surface on both sides.
     
  3. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    r the large beads glass..? or plastic?
     
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  4. Yan Seiner

    Yan Seiner Active Member

    Most likely glass. They feel pretty heavy and don't have the telltale mold lines.
     
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  5. smallaxe

    smallaxe Well-Known Member

    Agree that it's commercially tanned leather.
     
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