Amulet

Museum number:
2-36422
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1149
Description:
Turtle-shaped, buckskin, beaded in lazy stitch with thread; green, pink, blue, white, red.
Donor:
Harold Heath and Ida Shelley
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Blackfoot of Canada and Blackfoot of US
Collector:
Roy W. Pilling
Collection date:
1905-1915
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:
1954
Context of use:
Good luck charm for a child; usually contains part of umbilical cord; hung from cradle board. May be a toy.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Loans:
S1967-1968 #27: Liberty Union High School/Tarney Baldinger (September 6, 1967–September 22, 1967), S1979-1980 #32: Merritt College/Maurice Wolfe (January 14, 1980–May 6, 1980), S1987-1988 #16: California Academy of Sciences (September 11, 1987–February 19, 1988), and S1987-1988 #28: Smithsonian Institution (March 1, 1988–August 20, 1991)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Amulet, accession number 2-36422, described as Turtle-shaped, buckskin, beaded in lazy stitch with thread; green, pink, blue, white, red.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Amulet, accession number 2-36422, described as Turtle-shaped, buckskin, beaded in lazy stitch with thread; green, pink, blue, white, red.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Amulet, accession number 2-36422, described as Turtle-shaped, buckskin, beaded in lazy stitch with thread; green, pink, blue, white, red.

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