Necklace made of twisted jute string with "huayruro" seeds between long reed sticks. Feathers in the centre form a tied pendant with twisted hair(?).

Necklace with white, red and grey-brown feathers sewn into a strand of jute and tied at each end; large red and blue parrot feathers in the middle.

Woven anklet with two adjustable jute strings of green feathers and an "huayruro" seed bead. Two bands of dyed jute fibres near edge.

Woven anklet with two adjustable jute strings of grey-blue feathers and an "huayruro" seed bead. Two bands of dyed jute fibres near edge.

Long, thin woven rag rug. The warp is made of a thick, soft rope-like fibre and burlap that terminate at each end in loops. The weft is made of thick wool, woven in regularly spaced lines of red and black, white and black, red and blue, and red and brown. At each end is a wide stripe of red, yellow and tan.

Gift of Mrs. Ferdinand C. Smith and Mr. L. Hawley Hoffman.

Mrs. Ann Barber, the Maidu owner sold this belt to the Museum curator Stewart Culin. According to another Maidu informant, Mrs. Azbil, when she came into the country everyone of any wealth and importance had a belt. People could marry with them. The man gave it away. They also wore it in the War dance and this was the only way a man used it because it actually was a women's belt. This particular belt had been given to Mrs. Barber by her first husband, Pomaho, who married her with it. When he died it became hers and she was criticized for not burning it. The belt would be wrapped around the waist of the dancer twice for the Hesi, Toto of Kenu dances. The patterns on the belt mirror those used on baskets. The red triangles are composed of the scalps of twenty-five woodpeckers and are called grapevine leaves. The two narrow strips, composed of duck feathers, were named after the tongs used to lift the boiling stones out of the baskets when boiling mush. The knot of the belt where the threads come together is called the navel. Feather belts were the supreme Maidu representations of wealth and as such were prime candidates for destruction at death of the owner. Thus they are rare.

Large contemporary woven string bag (bilum) decorated with dyed stripes, different types of shells, chicken feathers, wooden beads, branches with seeds, small fan-shapes made of cut-up plastic packages, possum jaws, boar tusks and pieces of tapa cloth.