DESCRIPTION: Lakota Sioux strike-a-light bag panel circa 1890-1910. The tapered panel with a blue beaded ground with red and yellow triangles. With braided hide tassels. A lovely example with lazy stitch beading. There are numerous documented examples of Sioux and other Plains Tribes reworking the beaded facing of bags or knife or axe sheaths for other purposes This example with supporting sticks behind may be an example of a piece either that was not finished as a bag or potentially was being reworked for another us. 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: 3" at widest point x 9" long not including fringe. CONDITION: Wear and some bead loss