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Shinny balls
Object Number 38-44-10/12905
Display Title Shinny balls
Descriptions
Object Description Shinny balls--one of yellow, pink and blue beads, covering sinew sewed buckskin. Second of red beads on buckskin. third of green, red and white beads on buckskin.
Inventory Description Balls, oval and round, beaded linear designs on leather, tied together
Classification
  • Recreational device
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Materials Leather, Bead, Glass
Dimensions Overall: 8.6 x 6.1 x 4.4 cm (3 3/8 x 2 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
Quantity 3
Label on object 38-44-10/12905
Provenance
Collector Dr. Theodore Jewett Eastman (1903)
Donor Mrs. Henry H. Richardson (1938)

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