Lot 329

19th-Cent. Blackfeet Elk Antler Quirt w/ Beadwork

Estimate: $1,250 - $1,800

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$50 $10
$100 $25
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$2,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$25,000 $2,500
$100,000 $5,000
The lot features a wonderful 19th-Century Elk Antler horse quirt with beadwork from the Piegan Blackfeet of Northern Montana from an old Montana collection. The piece exhibits a large Rocky Mountain Elk antler carved and polished with a Buffalo hide wrist throng. The top shows old leather quirt strips inset into the antler and held into place with a metal tack and pin. The quirt is wrapped in old red stroud trace clothe and shows 1800's glass trade seed beads in a greasy light blue petit bead. Measures overall 33-inches long. Antler by itself without wrist throng and whip is 13-inches by 5-inches.

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