Fossil and pouch
- Museum number:
- 2-5451a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21025451a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- 3442 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.13
- Description:
- a) Section of fossil cephalopod ("buffalo stone"). b) Pouch; buckskin; floral beaded design; fringed; carrying loop.
- Donor:
- John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Blackfoot Reservation, Canada
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Canada; Blackfoot Reservation
- Culture or time period:
- Blackfoot of Canada
- Collector:
- J. Disbury and Philip Mills Jones
- Collection date:
- August 27, 1901
- Taxon:
- Cephalopoda
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Fossils
- Function:
- 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- August 1901
- Context of use:
- Part of medicine bundles. For further info. cf. 2-5524.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- (b)— height 5.5 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-