Museum Expedition 1907, Museum Collection Fund

Henry L. Batterman Fund and the Frank Sherman Benson Fund

Henry L. Batterman Fund and the Frank Sherman Benson Fund

Probably Apache because of the use of the black beads. Some pieces of cotton thread in the back. Could be a paint bag.

The Jarvis Collection

Many of the articles in this case (and the adjacent clothing case), some of the earliest and finest Eastern Plains pieces in existence, were collected by Dr. Nathan Sturges Jarvis, a military surgeon stationed at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, between 1833 and 1836. Most items were made by the Eastern and Middle Dakota (Sioux) or by the peoples of the Red River region, including the Red River Métis, Anishinabe, Plains Cree, and Salteaux. Some of the objects were purchased by Jarvis, and some may have been given to him in exchange for his medical services.

These works demonstrate indigenous ingenuity in combining trade materials such as cloth, metal, and glass beads with traditional hides, pipestone, and porcupine and bird quills. For comparison, a few examples collected later by Nathan Jarvis, Jr., during his army service in the Western Territories among the Apache and other Plains peoples are also included. These items clearly show the later indigenous preference for multicolored glass trade beads.

Brooklyn Museum Collection

Black cotton cap with red cotton band that is decorated with red, white, blue, and yellow beads. A red cloth tassel is on the top. Worn. Alternate number was 18516 and 32.1154

Bequest of W.S. Morton Mead

Dark and light brown basketry bowl; dark circular centre with 5 dark flared bands radiating from centre to outer edge. Lighter flared bands alternate between dark. Outer rim is dark with checker work below. Designs tend to be horizontally banded and include; deer, lizards ?, other 4 legged animals, a human, crosses, arrows, rectangles and t-shapes.

Pine pitch water jug. Two rods and coiled weaving, covered in pitch. Pitch is dyed red; 2 sets of braided horse-hair handles (probably to put on a belt.)