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Start Over Object name Fetish Object class Sculpture (visual works) Media available legacy documentation
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fetish, accession number 2-65002, described as Of a frog, carved, made of green serpentine.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fetish, accession number 2-62053, described as Four-footed animal carved from calcite.
Hearst Museum object titled Fetish, accession number 5-1551, described as Carved wooden figurine by child of a Suku Mukisi (fetish), feathered top. Made in imitation of real thing. Was used in a play. CHECK
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fetish, accession number 2-65014, described as Frog; made of carved red pipestone with inlaid turquoise eyes.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fetish, accession number 2-65005, described as Bear; carved, made of cream serpentine; eyes inlaid turquoise; zigzag on back. Coral stripe through mouth ending in turquoise triangles.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fetish, accession number 2-65010, described as Buffalo; made of carved red pipestone with inlaid turquoise eyes, turquoise triangle attached to back with string. Has horn; one is broken off and missing.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fetish, accession number 2-65019, described as Horse fetish carved of buff stone with some red flecks; inlaid turquoise eyes; shell projectile point on back, attached to horse by sinew cord which wraps around the body.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fetish, accession number 2-65021, described as Standing bear carved of light green stone; fetish bundle on back composed of turquoise and shell with string of olivella beads attached around body by sinew thong; darkened eyes.
Hearst Museum object titled Fetish, accession number 5-1680, described as Kungulya “fetish”: four carved wooden male and female figures standing back to back; all carved from one piece of hard wood. Hair neck ornament on each. For curing sexual impotence. Height 32.38 cm
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fetish, accession number 2-65001, described as Of a fox, made of carved serpentine: gray.

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