Object name: Amulet / Object type: ethnography / Culture or time period: North American native cultures - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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2. Amulet

Museum number:: 2-4885b
Culture or time period:: Comanche
Object class:: Amulets
Function:: 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Collector:: Hugh Lenox Scott
Collection place:: Great Plains, North America
Collection date:: 1901

3. Amulet

Museum number:: 2-48414
Culture or time period:: Crow and Plains and Prairie tribes
Object class:: Amulets
Function:: 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: length 11 centimeters
Collector:: unknown
Collection place:: Great Plains, North America

4. Amulet

Museum number:: 2-48413
Culture or time period:: Plains and Prairie tribes
Object class:: Amulets
Function:: 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: length 12 centimeters
Collector:: unknown
Collection place:: Great Plains, North America

5. Amulet

Museum number:: 2-5557
Culture or time period:: Blackfoot of Canada
Object class:: Amulets
Function:: 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: height 8 centimeters
Collector:: J. Disbury and Philip Mills Jones
Collection place:: Blackfoot Reservation, Canada

6. Amulet

Museum number:: 2-5452
Culture or time period:: Blackfoot of Canada
Object class:: Amulets
Function:: 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: length 13 centimeters
Collector:: J. Disbury and Philip Mills Jones
Collection place:: Blackfoot Reservation, Canada
Collection date:: August 27, 1901

7. Amulet

Museum number:: 2-8909
Culture or time period:: Alaskan Eskimo
Object class:: Amulets
Dimensions:: width 2.7 centimeters
Collector:: Charles L. Hall
Collection place:: Alaska
Collection date:: ca. 1895

8. Amulet

Museum number:: 1-2011
Culture or time period:: Yurok
Object class:: Amulets
Function:: 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: width 9.6 centimeters and length 11.2 centimeters
Collector:: Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:: Northwestern California
Collection date:: 1902

9. Amulet

Museum number:: 1-1922
Culture or time period:: Yurok
Object class:: Amulets
Collector:: Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:: Northwestern California
Collection date:: 1902

10. Amulet

Museum number:: 2-8908
Culture or time period:: Alaskan Eskimo
Object class:: Amulets
Dimensions:: diameter 3.7 centimeters
Collector:: Charles L. Hall
Collection place:: Alaska
Collection date:: ca. 1895

11. Amulet

Museum number:: 2-15785
Culture or time period:: Teton Dakota
Object class:: Amulets
Function:: 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Dimensions:: length 17.5 centimeters
Collector:: Mrs. G. E. Stockle
Collection place:: Pine Ridge Agency, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota
Collection date:: 1906