Lot 75

Crow Beaded & Fringed Hide Scout Jacket c. 1890-

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

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The lot features a fantastic elk hide beaded scout frontier men’s jacket from the Crow Native American Indians dating to the turn of the century circa 1890-1900’s. The piece shows a Rocky Mountain Elk Indian tanned hide construction with typical Old West frontier scouts jacket pattern showing a traditional collar, “v” opening with hide ties front, two exposed pockets on the front, front panels accented by fringe that extends over the shoulders and across the back in a “U” like (very western in style) and fringe along the bottom edge of the entire length of each arm and bottom edge of the jacket itself. The piece is likely from the Montana, Wyoming Crow which found its way to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The piece shows glass trade seed cen beads in a whimsical floral pattern in all early correct beads in colors of chalk white, light padre blue, corn yellow, butterscotch yellow, cobalt, greasy blue, medium green, Cheyenne pink, semi-translucent, semi-translucent red and a semi-translucent slight iridescent green. The jacket shows mostly trade thread sewing with small spots of sinew. The fringe is thick and wide accented by the scalloped edging along the sewn areas and collar. Truly an iconic Old West design as worn by many an Old Wild West Show performer such as Buffalo Bill Cody. Provenance: From the ex-collection of noted Old West and American Indian collector Jim Aplan of Piedmont, South Dakota and acquired from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the late 1900’s. Measures 54”W by 31”L when laid flat and the jacket is closed.
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