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Call Number	CHS-X20025
Title	Bag
Summary	Shows a Native American (Ute) leather bag that belonged to Chipeta, wife of Chief Ouray. The bag is decorated with blue, lavender, red, yellow, white, silver, pink, green and brown beadwork. The beadwork designs are of arrow, people, triangles, cactus, and semi-circles. Fringe is on the bottom of the bag and the top is tied with a draw string.
Date	[between 1903 and 1923]
Notes	Above blue-ground beaded area, on top third, is a green, brown, yellow, white, and silver cactus design, other side has pink, brown, white, yellow and green semicircles (in flower from?). Top of bag is bordered with brown, yellow and blue narrow band of rectangles. Dark brown fringe along top."; Accession ID: 75.104; History Colorado.; Curatorial note supplied by History Colorado: "Beaded leather bag that belonged to Chipeta, wife of Chief Ouray. Apparently was give to Mrs. John Boulter by Chipeta C.1913. Mrs. Boulter ran a boarding house at Atchee, Colorado, a station of the Unita railroad. Utes would come here for supplies, and Chipeta would occasionally stay in a guest room. Beautifully beaded leather bag with long fringe at bottom. Closed with tied leather draw string through two holes at top. Solid beadwork over bottom two-thirds with blue background. Has lavender bottom border, and designs (geometric and organic) in red, yellow, blue, white, green and brown. Arrow designs on each side of blue ground, three small human figures on each side at bottom, central triangle in middle (red central, white stepped border, two yellow right triangles above).; Object ID: 75.104.1; Scanned image from loaned transparency including Object ID.; Title supplied.; R7200200254
Physical Description	1 bag : leather ; 28 x 16 cm. (11 x 6 in.)
Is Part Of	History Colorado, Department of Material Culture
Subject	Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--1900-1930. Ute Indians--Arts & crafts--1900-1930. Chipeta--Associated objects.
Rights	Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact History Colorado: http://www.historycolorado.org/researchers/reproduction-commercial-use-fees
Reproduction Available for Purchase	Yes
Type of Material	Bags.; Imaged.
Format-Medium	Historical object
Identifier	75.104; 75.104.1
Filename	20020025.TIF

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