The paint is black, red, and blue.

Frank Sherman Benson Fund and the Henry L. Batterman Fund

Frank Sherman Benson Fund and the Henry L. Batterman Fund

Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund

Dance apron made of dark red felt with a dark blue wool backing, green and black appliques, beaded designs and rows of bells. The designs are beaded and appliqued plant-like shapes, copper shields and geometrical shapes, surrounding a flower on a long stem. Smaller copper bells hang in three rows at the bottom of the apron, with seven larger silver coloured bells decorating a plant shape above the bottom band. The left, right and bottom edge of the blanket have a scalloped edge. Red cotton apron ties hang on each side.

Cable-backed, double recurve bow, made of musk ox horn. The main body of the bow is a long thick slab of horn, with copper rivets holding it together at its joins. Behind the horn is a layer of dark brown hide or skin running the full length. Each end of the horn bow has a knob projecting up and down, around which many strips of hide lashings have been wrapped from end to end. The lengthwise lashings are wrapped widthwise by other hide lashings and then the full thickness of the bow is wrapped near each end and in the middle. The bow string is looped around each end knob, and hangs loosely.

Footed arrow consisting of a wooden and antler shaft, a copper arrowhead, and no fletchings. Its nock end is oblong and has about a centimeter of wrapped sinew on the shaft above it. The other end has a both a hole and a slit cut into it lengthwise to facilitate the hafting of the antler component. It is also wrapped with sinew. There is a depression near the nock end where fletchings would have previously been attached. The antler component is inserted into the hole of the wooden part and is attached to the arrowhead by a socketed tang. The arrowhead is almost pentagonal in shape.

Neck ring, hollow cast silver, open on one side. One surface of the ring has a design etched into it and the other side is smooth. On either side of the opening the metal is bent back on itself, and the bent portion is in the shape of an elongated triangle with several protrusions around the outside edge. There are two lengths of silver chain link (made of thin silver wire) attached across the open side of the neck ring, one longer than the other so that it hangs below the other. At the centre of each length of chain is attached a separately cast silver “mithun” or “buffalo head” ornament.

A chain necklace with a copper pendant in a shape of an arrow point and four faceted blue glass trade beads. The beads hang two on either side of the pendant.