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Object Number 05-36-10/65442
Display Title Medicine charm
Descriptions
Inventory Description Amulet, rectantular beaded, stone? inside, 7 teeth at base, 1 loose
Classification
  • Amulet
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Sioux?
  • Crow?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States
Dimensions Overall: 6.6 x 5 x 2.9 cm (2 5/8 x 1 15/16 x 1 1/8 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 65442
Provenance
Collector Unknown (?)
Donor Herbert A. Coffeen (1905)

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