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Start Over Collection place New Mexico Collector Leo Brereton
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fetish, accession number 2-65008, described as Bear; made of red pipestone. Face is broken off. Fetish bundle attached around belly with string: one mother-of-pearl arrowhead, one coral bead, one turquoise bead, and 3 beads of unknown material.
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 2-65006, described as Bear, made of gray and white striped serpentine with some yellow on one side. Fetish bundle on back attached by string around belly: one turquoise bead, oblong coral bead, mother-of-pearl arrowhead, and 2 small white beads.
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 2-65020, described as Buffalo (bison) carved of light green stone; fetish bundle on back is oval piece of turquoise attached around body with sinew cord; miniature horn horns; inlaid turquoise eyes, coral (?) nostrils.
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.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fetish, accession number 2-65001, described as Of a fox, made of carved serpentine: gray.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Fetish, accession number 2-65002, described as Of a frog, carved, made of green serpentine.

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