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Object Number
13-9-10/83968
Display Title
Medicine man's bag. Rawhide with fringes and metal cone jingles.
Descriptions
Object Description
Medicine man's bag. Rawhide (maybe cowhide) with fringes and metal cone jingles. Black, white, and yellow beadwork in circle designs. Circle design could represent hoop or circle of life. May not be medicine man bag.
Inventory Description
Bag, hide, beaded rosettes and edges, red fabric accents, conical metal tinklers
Classification
- Bag
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Apache
- Jicarilla?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Colorado
Materials
Hide, Glass, Metal, Fabric, Sinew
Dimensions
Overall: 53.5 x 39.5 x 1.4 cm (21 1/16 x 15 9/16 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
83968
Provenance
Collector
Grace A. Nicholson
(Unknown)
Donor
Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow
(01/01/1913)
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