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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Tomahawk, accession number 2-4827, described as Tomahawk; iron blade with cut-out heart in center; polished hardwood handle; red wool and beadwork trim sewn over base of handle and pendant from base with beadwork maltese cross, sun with carpet tack center and multicolor rectangle; 5 hawk feathers sewn to base of streamer.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Track on wax cylinder, accession number 14-2654a, described as Peyote Song, learned from Kiowa. Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Twig bundle, accession number 2-4914b, no description available.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled War bonnet, accession number 2-4897, described as With full single trail. Fulled red wool lined with buckskin and trimmed with single row of eagle feathers on wood "pins" in wool sockets sewn to liner; headpiece has beaded browband (white ground with 3 red and blue stepped designs surmounted by blue cross), ermine tail trim and two bison (?) horn tips, one at each side of browband; all feathers on trail have blonde horsehair (?) at top attached with mastic.
Hearst Museum object titled Watercolor painting, accession number 2-4816, described as Painting on rawhide, representing men and horses; beige ground; four mounted men, one wearing war bonnet with trail; two standing men; one feathered pole curved at the top. Circa 81 x 50 cm. In watercolor and pencil. From the H.L. Scott Collection of Plains Indians.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Wax cylinder recording, accession number 14-2654, described as A) Peyote Song, learned from Kiowa; B?) A Comanche? peyote song learned from Bannock, Fort Hall, Idaho. Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Whistle, accession number 2-4910, described as Red, white, and blue beads at one end with 2 pendant streamers heavily fringed and wrapped with same beads; bronze medal (silver-plated?) attached to whistle; obverse: bust of Ulysses S. Grant in center, "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LIBERTY JUSTICE AND EQUALITY 'LET US HAVE PEACE'"; reverse: center is globe, open bible, misc. tools, "ON EARTH PEACE GOOD WILL TOWARDS MEN 1871." Bird wing bone, buckskin, glass beads.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Wrist guard, accession number 2-4880, described as Bow wrist guard. Diamond shaped; drawstring thong. Rawhide.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Wrist guard, accession number 2-50132, described as Rectangular; drawstring thong. Rawhide.

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