Lizard (?); fully beaded top sewn to buckskin; three horsehair and conical metal feet, 1 foot conical metal over buckskin. Made with buckskin, blue, white, and red glass trade beads; yellow horsehair, and tinned steel.
Donor:
San Mateo County Historical Museum
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Crow and Plains and Prairie tribes
Collector:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Amulets
Function:
5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1967
Context of use:
Pouch to preserve naval cord, hung on the cradle or about the neck of an infant.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 11 centimeters
Comment:
References: Wissler, N. Amer. Indians of the Plains.