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38-8-36

From: Great Plains (Plain)

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 38-8-36
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Native American
Provenience Great Plains (Plain)
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Buckskin | Pigment | Bead
Description

Amulet. Leather. Cylindrical with slight constriction, marking the "head". Painted to suggest a beetle or larva; large blue beads sewed in a close coil around the 'body", a short string of large beads lies across the back of the "neck".

Length 5.1 cm
Outside Diameter 2.22 cm
Credit Line Gift of Rodman Wanamaker III, 1938
Other Number 38-8-37:NG - Other Number

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