Amulet
- Museum number:
- 2-5525
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020005525
- Alternate number:
- 3590 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.13 and Acc.88
- Description:
- Lizard shaped amulet made of buckskin and beaded in white, black, and yellow. Fringed.
- 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
- 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:
- 1903 and August 1901
- Context of use:
- Made to contain dried umbilical cord; hung on cradle as protective amulet.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 11 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-