The lot features a fantastic and rare Lakota Sioux fully beaded riding quirt dating to circa 1880 from the Bruce VanLandingham Sundog collection. The piece is comprised of a carved wood handle being completely covered in a muslin trade clothe with Indian tanned hide wrist throng and harness leather strips all bearing period correct 19th Century glass trade seed beads in traditional Sioux geometric patterns. The beadwork includes colors such as chalk white, red white hearts, greasy yellow, cobalt, and greasy green. The wrist throng shows a medium width Indian tanned hide strap which extends past the pierced hole in the handle where it is tied on giving a tongue like fringe tab. The wrist throng is covered in beadwork alogn with a fancy beaded edge and many rolled tin jingle dangle cones bearing rich blue Germantown yarn fringes. The front shows the old trade harness saddle leather dual strips which are covered in beadwork for the first 4-5" alogn with silk ribbons which have frayed. The entire piece appears to be sinew sewn and is in well preserved condition with soft hide and little bead loss. The Indian Wars era piece is very scarce with few fully beaded examples from this period being available and in such wonderful condition. Provenance: From the renowned Sundog Fine Art Bozeman, Montana collection by Bruce VanLandingham. Bruce VanLandingham was a pillar in the American Indian collecting community and a respected expert. Along with being an avid collector, Bruce was also the sole owner of Sundog Fine Art Gallery in Bozeman, which was both part museum and gallery, this piece is directly from the collection. The piece measures overall approximately 37.5"L. Museum collection number E1026.