FROM CARD: "PRESENTED TO ORDNANCE MUSEUM BY LIEUT. F. V. GREENE, ENG. CORPS, U.S.A., JAN. 16, 1877."

Gift of Jack Lenor Larsen

By exchange

By exchange

Pair of moccasins cut in one piece. Each has seams down the back, on two side flaps, and in the center of the upper area. Moccasins are decorated with linear, zigzag, and double-curve motif quillwork in orange, blue, red, and white. Flaps are edged with beadwork on cotton cloth. Condition is good.

Plainware globular jar with pointed bottom, straight rim and circular mouth. Geometric designs incised on collar in paired rectangles.

Wooden bowl with schematic faces carved in relief on two vertical, stepped shaped, rim lugs, which are located opposite each other. The wood grain shows on the bowl along with some dark stains in the interior bottom. The brass is a Native repair. Wooden bowls with images generally were treasured and inherited, passed from generation to generation . Although the Delaware are often thought of as located in the eastern part of the North American continent after 1700 they are shown to have also migrated throughout Ohio and Indiana, as far north as Wisconsin, and south to Texas. Such bowls might have traveled with them. It is not known where Jarvis acquired this bowl.

A bundle of tassels, or fringe from a garment that has been cut off and tied together. The tassels are made from lengths of skin wrapped in porcupine quill and ending with copper cones and very coarse hair. The catalogue card states this is a bunch of Indian bells which probably resulted from the fact the tassels are partly made from small copper cones which jingle when shaken (G.Crowther).; Good.The cones are made of iron not copper