Case

36808

From: Wyoming | Wind River Reservation

Curatorial Section: American

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Native Name To-Go Po-Wa-Sha
Object Number 36808
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Shoshone
Provenience Wyoming | Wind River Reservation
Culture Area Great Basin Culture Area
Section American
Materials Rawhide | Pigment | Buckskin
Description

Cylindrical hide case, one side painted with diamonds and triangles in green, yellow, red and blue pigment. Lid is a circle of hide attached with buckskin straps. Exterior of lid has red cloth attached around the edge and a cross design in blue, red and green pigment. Fringed along the sides and bottom of the case and edges of the lid.

Length 49.53 cm
Credit Line John Wanamaker Expedition, 1900; R. Stewart Culin, 1900

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