Southern Plains Hide Bag

Early/Mid 20th Century

Handles are each 10" L - BAG 8.5" L x 4.5" W + 5" L Beaded Fringe

Hand Crafted from Hide Leather with Glass Seed Beads of a Beaded Medallion with 2 Handles

In Very Good Condition

Southern Plains Hide Bag is a type of traditional Native American pouch or small bag made from animal hide (often buffalo, deer, or other tanned leather/rawhide), originating from the Southern Plains tribes. These include groups like the Comanche, Kiowa, Apache, Cheyenne, and others in regions spanning present-day Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and parts of New Mexico and Colorado.

Oscar B Jacobson Estate Collection Jacobson Provenance

My grandparents were Oscar Brousse Jacobson and Sophie Jacobson. 

As founder and first Director of the School of Art at the University of Oklahoma, Oscar Jacobson devoted significant time and energy in support of Native American arts and artists. He taught, nurtured and developed the group of young Native American artists known as the Kiowa Six, among many others. In honor of those efforts nationwide and internationally, the Kiowas honored Jacobson by making him honorary chief of the Kiowa Tribe on July 26th 1928. The tribe presented him with Regalia made for him for that ceremony. Before he died, my grandfather gifted that Regalia to me. 

In addition to that regalia, both of the Jacobsons collected a variety of Native American items. Some of these items were given to me directly by each of them, some I inherited upon the death of each of them, and the remainder I from my mother, Yolande Jacobson Sheppard upon her death. All of the items have been in possession of the Jacobson and Sheppard families continuously.  Sim C. Sheppard January 2024