Amulet
- Museum number:
- 2-5631
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020005631
- Alternate number:
- 3860 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.13 and Acc.88
- Description:
- In shape of lizard (?); beaded white ground, back stripe in yellow/blue; cloth lined; empty; 4 brass springs attached as feet.
- Donor:
- John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Great Plains, North America
- Verbatim coll. place:
- ; Great Plains
- Culture or time period:
- Piegan
- Collector:
- J. Disbury and Philip Mills Jones
- Collection date:
- 1903
- 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:
- When navel cord drops off, it is placed in amulet and hung on cradle board for protection. Original entry: "Boy's navel amulet
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 13.5 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-