This is a large rare Osage quilled and beaded pipe bag collected at the Osage Indian Reservation in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. The piece was said to be in the Osage Tribal Headquarters museum collection on loan for over 25 years and in 2010 sold to collector Tom hardy of Indianapolis, Indiana. Osage beadwork is rare on the Indian market with this being a truly exceptional masterpiece of Native American Art. The piece is comprised of Indian brain-tanned softer Rocky Mountain Elk hide rather than buckskin or buffalo hide and is artfully beaded on both sides in different geometric patterns. There is a section of porcupine quill quillwork and frilly Indian hide fringes on the bottom end. According to Doug Diehl of Skinner Auctions in Boston, Mass., horse track designs done in brass tacking, beadwork or quill work is indicative of being attributed to a warrior. The bag has an original tie still attached, a beaded border edge, an expertly beaded cross motif design, red dyed top edge in mineral pigment ocher / ochre. The beadwork is all glass trade seed beads in colors of chalk white, greasy green, greasy butterscotch yellow, cobalt, semi-transparent red, medium blue. There are two hawk trade bells on the bottom edge. The bag has been professionally preserved and shows little to no bead or quill loss with the natural white and lilac horse track design. Provenance: From the ex-Osage Tribal Headquarters Museum collection on loan for over 25 years and purchased in 2010 by Tom Hardy of Indianapolis, Indiana. The bag measures 37 inches long by 6 ½ inches wide.