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Fertility Charm
| Object Number: | 97-84-1023 |
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Sioux |
| Provenience: | South Dakota White River |
| Culture Area: | Great Plains (Culture Area) |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Buckskin Bead Tin Feather |
| Credit Line: | Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997 |
| Other Number: | L-84-1023 - Old Museum Number 18769 - ANSP Number II 650 - Gottschall Number |
Description
Woman's fertility charm in lizard form. Solidly beaded back; green with blue and bronze "spine", white head and border with red and blue dots; banded blue and white tail. Tinkler feet and tail tuft.
Bibliography:
| [Book] Gottschall, Amos H. 1909. Priced and Descriptive Catalogue of the Utensils, Implements, Weapons, Ornaments, Etc., of the Indians, Mound Builders, Cliff Dwellers: Typical Collections No. 2.. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: II 650 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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