DESCRIPTION: Chippewa (Great Lakes) tribal bandolier bag, probably circa 1890-1910. Native American men did not have pockets and so many adopted wearing shoulder bags copied from British and American military bandoliers. The Great Lakes tribes raised this to an extraordinary art form with beads and cloth. This example is a masterful example of the bearers art that combines fine loomed beadwork starts and geometrics with freehand applied elements including the life circles. Related examples can be found in Art of the Great Lakes Indians and in Art of the American Indian Frontier. 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:12" wide x 38" long. CONDITION: Excellent.