Charles Stewart Smith Memorial Fund

High hide boots with beaded trim in chevron pattern rows along calf and around vamp.

Bequest of W.S. Morton Mead

Henry L. Batterman Fund

Beaded band with bright green background with blue and gold beads in an arrow shaped design. Scalloped beaded edge and blue beaded dangles on the end.Loom woven.

Brooklyn Museum Collection

This man's breast plate has nine, carved flat, shell bead strands across the chest centered with a blue faceted glass bead. This is then held by a raw, hide, thin band that goes all around. This is studded with small brass buttons. Ten rawhide cords are along the sides for tying on and two at the top.

Earplugs. A red-feathered disk is surrounded by white beads and attached to a carved piece of bone. Pendants of abalone are suspended from the red disk.

This large, globular basket was purchased from the proprietor of the hotel in Ukiah. According to Dr. Hudson, informant to Stewart Culin, the Museum's curator, it is called a "chi-mo", literally, "Son-in-law). This was given to a man by his mother-in-law or the nearest relative of the bride. After the gift of this basket they may not speak to or even look at each other again. Twined "dowry" baskets are among the largest of all Pomo baskets. The technique here is called lattice twining in which two flexible weft strands twist around an additional, rigid element as well as vertical warp strands. This considerably strengthens the basket. Most baskets with horizontal band designs have an intentional change to the pattern, called a dau. While exact significance is obscure it has been regarded as the doorway for the spirits to enter, inspect, and then leave the basket when it would be destroyed.

This is a beaded, hide band with clear, black, pink, yellow, blue and red beads. An old tag indicates this belonged to Sitting Bull and collected around 1914.