This shirt has deer skins tied to the lower corners, possibly reflecting the legs of the deer. There are long fringes in a 'V' on the front bib, along the outer length of the arms and on the bottom sides. Short fringe is on the wrist end of the sleeve. The bottom edge is scalloped. A wide band of red ocher is striped vertically down the shirt on either side of the bib.

Brooklyn Museum Collection

Softly woven wool weaving in orange, black, gray and cream on a red ground. The weaving has two large parrallel zigzag bands, running horizontally, with two toothed diamonds in the center. Each long side has three long toothed designs. Both ends have five stripes. All edges are finished with and overcast red yarn. weaving has a white tag safety pinned to corner "Rug #1" "3" which was on when given by donor. Condition: Good. Colors are vivid and bright on obverse and reverse.

This is a conical type wooden hat with a separate piece of a sculpted man wearing a status hat inserted into the front. The figure has an open mouth with white teeth. The underside of the "hat" is actually not hollowed out so it could not be worn down over the head but it could have been perched on top or only used as a sculptural piece.

A long, thin, argillite pipe with elaborately carved figures and rarely found tracings of pigments-yellow, blue, and red. The object is in fair condition. A 1938 conservation record indicates that the pipe stem was broken and repaired with iron rods and other materials. This will be reversed by Conservation. Peter NcNair 3/29/2005 said that the earliest argillite pipes were stubby. He said that 'Panel pipes' began to appear in the late 1820s-1830s and were never intended to be smoked. Peter added that he has never seen any with residue indicating use, although it was physically possible to smoke them. Red vermillon used on the pipes came from China via Americans in the Sea Otter fur trade business. Red, blue, and yellow pigments were used to outline the carved forms. Peter comments: "Absolutely unique. I've seen them with red, but never with blue or yellow."

Bequest of W.S. Morton Mead

All that remains of Mimbres villages are rubble mounds with scattered pottery shards. No one knows if the Mimbres moved or who their descendants might be. Mimbres potters, probably women, created sophisticated designs for six hundred years. The pottery objects that have survived are primarily executed in black and white with complicated designs. Some of the best pottery pieces apparently had holes deliberately punched into their centers before they were placed in burials underneath house floors, but we do not know why.

By exchange

Henry L. Batterman Fund and the Frank Sherman Benson Fund

This garter is loom woven probably without the use of a heddle. It is made with garnet and white pony beads on a warp of black and green with thread wefts. The beads are composed in a geometric pattern of rectangles and diagonal lines, opposed as chevrons. See other garters, 50.67 a,c,d.shown in additional photogrpahs.