DESCRIPTION: Beaded Chippewa/Potawatomi bandolier bag circa 1890-1910. With hourglass motifs and outlined lobed floral motifs. Great Lakes tribes raised art form of the simple bandolier bag to a new level. While numerous tribes produced over the shoulder bags like this, the Chippewa and Potawatomi incorporated unprecedented loom and free hand woven beadwork into their designs. Related examples are found in Art of the American Indian Frontier and Art of the Great Lakes Indians. PROVENANCE: Collected by Theodore Kepner Long (1856 - 1947) and then by gift to the Carson Long Military Academy. Raised in Millerstown (Pa.), Long attended Yale Law School before relocating to North Dakota where he became publisher of the Mandan Pioneer. He rose to prominence in the legal profession becoming a States Attorney for lands West of the Missouri River in 1885 and Attorney for N.P.R.R. Bismark North Dakota in 1887. The then moved to Chicago in 1894 before returning to New Bloomfield Pennsylvania and founding Carson Long Military Academy in 1914. MEASUREMENTS: 12" wide x 37" long overall. CONDITION: Minimal soiling as expected with age.