Lakota Sioux Tobacco Bag
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DESCRIPTION: Lakota Sioux tobacco bag circa 1890-1910. The tapered bag with a blue beaded ground with red and white geometrics. 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: 8" long not including fringe x 3-1/2" at widest point. CONDITION: Wear and some bead loss.
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