Florence B. and Carl L. Selden Fund

Henry L. Batterman Fund

This dyed black deerskin pouch is decorated with a false flap, a modified "V" shaped line that is elaborated to seem like the opening of the bag. The edge of this "flap" is bordered with braided quill work in stripes of orange and blue, edged at the top and bottom of the border with thin white lines. A thin, undulating white line has been embroidered above this border. From the bottom of the border, enhancing this illusion of a flap, metal cones filled with reddish deer hair are suspended. Similar cones with deer hair are suspended from the bottom of the bag. The bottom half of the bag is embroidered with quills in a complex of motifs. Three double-curved forms or bifurcating lines are embroidered with thin lines or orange, blue and white. These forms "sprout" from a wider double band of orange and white braided quill work, elaborated with thin outlines in blue and white. The border or groundline for these sprouting forms is surrounded by an irregular, zig-zag outline in white with some blue at bottom. At the base of each of the five resulting points of the zig-zag are five circles, each composed of concentric rings made of quill embroidered lines of white, orange and blue. The ribbon strap of the pouch is now deteriorated, appearing to be maroon with yellowish stripes.

A. Augustus Healy Fund

This is a wonderful Warrior Society dance wand. However the handle seems very short, as usually they are longer. One in the Buffalo Bill Plains Museum collection is just like this with long handle. These are also shown being used by dancers in Catlin’s paintings .

Brooklyn Museum Collection

Other pieces are located as follows, SKZ 12/29/10: 06.60c- Hide bag- 5H17-4C Box 1268 06.60d -Hide bag- 5H17-4C Box 1268 06.60e- Hide bag- 5H17-4C Box 1268 06.60f- Hide animal piece , woven hair and claw attached- 5H17-4C Box 1246 06.60g- Feather bundle- 5H17-4C- Box 1270 06.60h- Large hide bag that also goes by number 11.694.9077 5H17-4C Box 1268 06.60i-Three thin leather pieces tied with a string 5H17-4C-Box 1270 06.60j- Entire sacred bird, painted with blue on one side and red on the other , 5H17-4B (box has no number on it) 06.60k-Animal hide with fur- 5H17-4C Box 1246 06.60l-Whole animal skin with porcupine quill wrapped feet - 5H17-4C-Box 1270 Object appears on release dated 1-20-1972 to James Economos with other objects in exchange for 72.51.1-.2. Approved for deacc. 1-18-1972. See museum locations as most have been located..

Brooklyn Museum Collection

Designs made up of incised lines and pierced or "cut out' shapes elaborate the form of this flattened section of elk antler. The upper end of this hair ornament is a carved, elongated semi-circle, rounded at the top, but it is cut at the bottom to suggest the form of two figures which emerge at the shoulders, as if headless, with slightly flexed knees. The figures' torsos have cut triangular shapes pointing downwards. The elongated, lower section of the ornament is pierced with circles, a semicircle, narrow or linear crescents, and two pointed ovals. Each of the "cut-outs" is surrounded with an incised outline, most of them rubbed with red pigment, with the following exceptions: the inner legs of the two figures, on the shins from the knee to the ankle, are rubbed in black. A horn shaped outline is also rubbed in black. At the rounded end, beyond the bone tube is a cross, cut through the flat piece of antler. A faded ribbon, now off-white, is tied to the bone tube and a thin piece of thong is knotted underneath the tube, on the unornamented side of the antler plate. The spreader has lost any remnant of feathers or woodpecker beak that once may have adorned it coming out of the femural bone tube.