Game

37578

From: United States of America | Montana | Fort Peck Reservation

Curatorial Section: American

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Native Name Ta-Si-Ha
Object Number 37578
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Teton | Dakota | Sioux
Provenience United States of America | Montana | Fort Peck Reservation
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Deer Bone | Buckskin | Bead | Metal
Description

A leather cord tied to a rigid metal wire. Five deer bones are strung on the cord, and there is a v-shaped notch etched in the bone closest to the wire. The other end of the cord is tied to a looped string of blue glass beads. The deer bone closest to the beads has 37578 written on it.

Length 64 cm
Credit Line John Wanamaker Expedition, 1900; R. Stewart Culin, 1900

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