The lot features an authentic circa 1875 Kiowa beaded strike-a-lite bag and iron striker, a wonderful Indian Wars period piece from a museum collection. The bag is comprised of thread and sinew sewn brown harness saddle leather in a typical 19th Century Kiowa pattern hourglass shape. The beautifully beaded designs on the front are brick-stitched using small period correct glass trade seed beads in colors of greasy light sky padre blue, semi-transparent rose, chalk white, and cobalt. The original tie strap is still intact and has a few old brass trade beads attached. There are two long braided hide strips attached with old tin cone danglers with yellow pigment that hang down an additional 7 inches. The bag itself has minimal wear with little to no bead loss. The forged iron striker is square in shape and measures 2 ¾ inches long by 1 ¼ inches wide and has a small strip of old buckskin attached. The bag exhibits some wear from the square indentation of the striker, indicating it is the original striker. Like all authentic Kiowa strike a light bags, there is a beaded section on the lower back side. The bag was collector from the Kiowa at Fort Sill, Oklahoma by Dr. Charles Fahrenbach of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and donated to the Dakota Frontier Museum in 1981 by the Fahrenbach’s family after his passing. The piece was sold to artifact dealer Jim Aplan of Piedmont, South Dakota in a museum de-accession sale when the museum closed in the 1990’s. Aplan later sold the piece to well known collectors Mary Lou and Pierre DuPont of St. Louis, Missouri in the late 1990’s. Two very similar examples were sold recently in two separate Cowan’s / Hindman sales; one in June 2022 hammered at $8,500 and another in a September 2022 sale hammered at $13,000. This is a very attractive authentic work of American Indian art that displays beautifully and has a rich ownership history. Provenance: Ex-Dr. Charles Fahrenbach / Dakota Frontier Museum / Jim Aplan / Mary Lou and Pierre DuPont collections. Overall length is 17 ¼ inches long and is 6 ¾ inches long by 4 inches wide with fringes being 7 inches.