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| Keywords: Sioux Quilled Tobacco Bag.JPG en wikipedia 2010 March 21 Photographed by Pierre Fabre<br/>Tobacco Bag Pierre L Fabre collection 2006 <br/>John Painter collection 2001 <br/>Photographed and described in John W Painter's<br/>Window on the Past - Volume II<br/>Sioux Quilled Tobacco Bag sinew-sewn on hide with red green yellow and purple quillwork forming flora and fauna buffalo and caterpillar images on recto Verso decorated with horizontal red quilled lines Lower panel composed of a wide span of quilled rawhide slats finishing with hide fringe and brass bells quilled hide thong terminating with tin cones hang from opening length excluding fringe 24 As discussed by Colin Taylor in his paper Wakanyan Symbols of Power and Ritual of the Teton Sioux 1987 237-257 the cocoon is a symbol that evokes powerful imagery As an emblem suggestive of several connotations the most easily understood being spiritual and physical transformation the cocoon also evokes recognition of the Sioux spirit Yumni the whirlwind responsible for the four directions of the world Walker 1917 85 Both the moth which breaks free of its confining cocoon and the untamable wind are viewed as spirits impossible to contain Clark Wissler described in his 1907 field notes the whirlwind bug a creature with spiral grooves that creates small dust clouds along the ground By this action the cloud was thought to confuse the enemy and make him loose his senses Wissler 1907 119 Similar iconography can be suggested in this tobacco bag The striped S-shaped devices could suggest the whirlwind bug with alternating purple and yellow quillwork depicting the spiral grooves The enclosed diamond above the buffalo's head may represent a cocoon leading to the idea of the Whirlwind Buffalo As noted by Taylor such a representation is shown taken from Gerrick Mallery 1893 604 Here a cocoon is clearly shown above the head of the bear and represents the whirlwind phenomena The symbolism of the cocoon on the Crazy Horse shirt can thus be interpreted with some confidence Taylor 1987 252 The combination of bear and cocoon or buffalo and cocoon implicates the harnessing these animals' powers Photographed and described in A Window of the Past Painter 2003 38 and Moths and the Plains Indian Their Fascinating Connection Painter in Taylor and Dempsey 2005 185-192 Mallery Garrick1893 Picture Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology Washington D C Taylor Colin 1987 Wakanyan Symbols of Power and Ritual of the Teton Sioux The Canadian Journal of Native Studies VII 2 237-257 Walker James R 1917 The Sun Dance and Other Ceremonies of the Oglala Division of the Teton Dakota Anthopological Paper Vol 16 2 American Museum of Natural History Wissler Clark1902 Field Notes on the Dakota Indians Collected on Museum Expedition Ms 1911 of the American Museum of Natural History New York original upload log page en wikipedia Sioux+Quilled+Tobacco+Bag JPG '1' Upload date User Bytes Dimensions Comment - nowrap 2006-10-09 04 40 18 nowrap Frogiac nowrap 1325364 nowrap 662�2229 <small><nowiki>Photographed by Pierre Fabre Tobacco Bag Pierre L Fabre collection 2006 John Painter collection 2001 Photographed and described in John W Painter's Window on the Past - Volume II Sioux Quilled Tobacco Bag sinew-sewn on hide with red green yellow </nowiki></small> Quillwork Files moved from en wikipedia to Commons requiring review as of 21 March 2010 Leather bags Tobacco packs Sioux artefacts Fringes | ||||
