Large Beautiful Lakota Sioux Mirror Bag-Hand Made Beaded-Native-Ethnic-Colorado

Description

We just acquired this large hand made Native Lakota or Central Sioux beaded mirror bag that is 8 inches high by 7 inches wide not including the fringe on the sides and bottom....
No doubt a lot of work went into making this hand made soft skin leather bag that has a colorful Rosette near the top. These Rosettes or
circular designs served as depictions of protective spirits and of Native symbols such as the double whirlwinds or the four directions. Rosettes are attached to shirts, tipis, bonnets, moccasins and bags as decorations.....
The Rosette is beaded with red, turquoise blue, yellow, cobalt blue, white, green and brown seed beads. The body of the bag has lots of fringe with some holding translucent red padre beads and some holding tin cones with red white hearts and black beads hanging from them at the bottom. The body of the bag is lazy stitched with red, white, blue and yellow seed beads including the large 32 inch strap. Some of the beads look to be sewn with sinew....
This awesome bag was acquired in Colorado years ago......
A great addition to your collection or for display......
Please see our other Native and Western items we have for sale at this time.....
Note:
For Native Americans, color and symbolism are very significant.  Symbols used in beadwork can tell stories about a person’s ancestry or about the spirits that are important to a family or the culture. Colors can also be used to determine where the beadwork originated. When using color to help identify or narrow down where a rosette design came from, the primary colors on the design are often the most revealing, as some cultures used certain colors more than others; colors also have different meanings for different Native cultures.  Examples from the Lakota culture are that the color black represents the west wind, autumn, and the dream world, while the color red may be interpreted to the sunrise, birth, east wind, spring, and beginnings.  It is also important to note how many repetitions of designs are used in beadwork compositions; there may be repetitions of a design such as a cross or bird tracks in sets of four, seven, or twelve, and these important numbers refer to the cardinal directions, to specific spirits, or to prayers.