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  An umbilical cord container, most likely of Sioux workmanship. Generally after the birth, the umbilical cord was preserved in a container lavishly decorated with beads, such as the one shown in the photograph, which was then hung over the cradle or, later on, on the belt. The lizard-like shape …

  Gathered during the 1830s by itinerant painter George Catlin, this marvelous leather garment presents designs of different periods and various decorative techniques. Besides the painted patters on the edges and on the porcupine spines woven atop the sleeve, a band of pony beads on the front and back employs …

  Lakota Warrior on his horse, designed in beads on a pipe bag. A typical Sioux Teton (Lakota) beaded artifact from the last quarter of last century. Notice the accuracy of the details: the crest of eagle feathers, the pony-tail tied back for battle and the scalps hanging from the …

  A knife case found amongst the Han, an Apache tribe from the Sub-arctic region. These cases were worn around the neck and hung down to the chest. This one is made with thick cured caribou leather and decorated with common tusk shells paired with red, white and blue commercial …

  Wife of a Miwok Chief of the Coast, 1833 Near BodegaBaya high-ranking woman offer guests acorn mush out of a ceremonial basket decorated with beads made of sea buck-thorn pits and decorated with red feathers taken from the heads of dozens of woodpeckers. Her soft feather mantel, which was …