This is an immensely rare Tobacco Pipe Bag with Stem Holder from the Nez Perce Plateau Indians circa 1870 from an ex-Museum East Coast collection. The piece exhibits a pipe bag / tobacco bag with original round stem holder all done in expertly fine beadwork comprised of buffalo bison hide being sinew sewn. The beadwork is incredibly fine with amazing detail showing all sinew sewn 1800’s period correct old glass trade seed beads in colors of greasy yellow, greasy pea green, cobalt, red white heart, light sky padre blue, semi-transparent dark red, and chalk white. The top shows a beaded flap and Indian tanned belt tie and the bottom amazing Indian tanned buffalo hide thin long frilly fringes with a yellow ocher mineral pigment coloring. Tobacco pipe bags with pipe-stem case are exceedingly rare with only a few documented example including them Northern Cheyenne 1870 example in The Met Museum collection from the Charles and Valerie Diker collection, the Arapaho Tobacco bag with stem case 1880 from Sotheby’s Important Western Collector sale, and the Ute Tobacco Bag with Pipe Holder 19th-Century sold by Hindman Freeman Cowan’s in 2026 for $7,980 (all are photo’d for reference). Furthermore authentic, period correct Nez Perce and Shoshone beadwork is very rare with few surviving examples, many of which from Museum collections such as this. Provenance: From a ex-Museum collection from the East Coast where the piece was on display proudly. This is truly a treat to offer and a rarity to own. The bag is well preserved with very small to almost no bead loss, the hide shows nice patina from honest age and use, with mostly supple hides. Measures overall 30-inches long by 8-inches wide.