PIPE BAG -Cree/Ojibwe style beadwork w/tobacco pouch, Paul St John, Mohawk

Description

A beaded pipe bag with tobacco pouch - beaded with Cree/Ojibwe style floral designs by Paul St John Mohawk. The pipe bag top, the attached
tobacco pouch and the fringes on both are of soft tanned deer leather.  Pipe bag has sueded side out, on tobacco pouch the sueded side of the leather is on the inside of the pouch.  Both have drawstring closures near their tops and both are fringed.  Large glass beads of medium green, white and rose pink are on the ends of the drawstrings.  The lower part of the pipe bag is of red trade wool and the front of that is beaded -
flowers, flower buds, leaves and vines  the Cree/Ojibwe fashion.
The design is of vintage glass seed beads -of  green, salmon pink,  lavender, medium blue, white and yellow beads making up the flowers, buds, leaves and vines. .
Pipe bag is 20" long and 6.5" wide.  Fringe on pipe bag hangs 10.5" below bottom (w/fringe bag is 30.5" long)  ...  Tobacco pouch is 6.5" long and 4.25" wide.  Fringe on tobacco pouch hangs 6.5" below the bottom (w/fringe tobacco pouch is 13" long)..  The pipe bag's deer hide top is 9.5" long and the beaded red tradewool is 10.5" long
You can use this as part of your regalia, carrying a large pipe w/ tobacco pouch on inside or attached to the drawstring as shown in photos above...  Or you can use it as a spectacular display piece.
Paul St. John now lives in Maine, near his mother's Passamaquoddy, Maliseet and Micmac relatives.  He is an enrolled Mohawk and grew up on the Mohawk lands in New York, his father's tribe.   2nd from last photo in slideshow is of Paul St John and 2 of his other works.  Last photo is of his Mohawk grandmother, Amelia St John who taught him beading.   (Cree and Ojibwe are north and western neighbors of some the Iroquois tribes, (Including Mohawk)  Their designs influenced each other and similarities in design and technique can be found in some of their works.
Paul St John also makes birchbark, porcupine quill and coiled sweetgrass baskets, beaded knife cases, traditional dolls, water drums, birch bark rattles, beaded barrettes and moccasins among numerous other traditional crafts - check out more of his work in this ebay store.