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Pair of child's moccasins with beadwork. The design includes two navy blue, light blue, and red extended crosses at the front and four navy and red squares on the sides lie within a gray background that is rimmed at the bottom with turquoise and navy blue. Strings of beads are sewn with dark brown thread onto pale brown fabric that is joined at the heel and sewn onto a sole of deer ? skin. A trim of tan coloured fabric is folded over the cuff rim and along the front edge (no tongue).
Pair of moccasins decorated at the toe with short horizontal strings of small glass beads. The thick strip is made up of a yellow line with navy crosses between two lines of alternating red and blue triangles. Stiff yellow leather soles are sewn to cream-coloured deer ? skin tops with thick heel seams and skin laces threaded through one hole.
Small hand rattle with a cork stopper in the handle shaft has stones ? inside the bulbous end. It consists of two halves, pieces of stiff, thick skin, sewn together from handle to top with thick twisted cotton threads that are knotted together at the top around a bundle of tiny twigs.
Blue, pink and white beaded belt with small pouch and skin tie. The long panel of cross-motif beadwork, stitched onto a strip of light brown fabric covered with a dark brown fabric, has a backing of striped red, blue and cream flannel fabric. Beaded semi-circular pouch attached to the bottom of the belt near one end has pocket shaped backing of the same flannel and is accessible only from the inside of the belt.
Front beaded panel of a sheath. White, yellow, and blue beads decorate a V-shaped panel of red wool fabric with burgundy and beige striped fabric backing and a gold satin border trim. A string of small metal beads is sewn on around the edge and two long skin strips are folded in half and stitched on to the bottom tip.
Small triangular piece of beadwork. Short horizontal strings of beads are sewn onto a piece of skin in bands of white, yellow, red and turquoise on one side, turquoise, white and navy on the other, with a string of white as a border around the edge.
Beaded knife sheath (part a) with carved wooden knife inside (part b). The front sheath panel of beaded fabric with a scalloped edge (lined at the back with a burgundy fabric), decorated with yellow and blue crosses and diagonal lines, is sewn to a skin panel with fringe down one side. Coils made of strings of beads wrapped around strips of fabric are at top and bottom; the top is a handle of white and blue, the bottom a long tail in yellow and blue with a red wool fabric tassel.
Feather fan with beaded handle. Long brown and shorter red feathers are imbedded into one side of a bow-tie shaped handle (wood ?) completely covered with beaded red and beige striped fabric that has a design on a white bead ground of diamonds and triangles in green, blue, yellow, and orange on one side and facing chevrons in blue and yellow on the other. At the other end of the handle are attached long fabric cords around which are coiled strings of white beads, with brass beads and skin fringe tassels at the ends.
Buffalo calf skin drum. Skin is lashed to the bottom of the frame with sinew, four strips of which are twisted into the centre and tied together in a large knot. The top rim is painted with a band of black and red and the top surface has four black V-shapes placed on opposing sides and a red crescent in the centre. Inscription on inside of wood frame.
Rectangular beaded purse with zipper at tip edge. Made from a folded panel of beadwork with added skin side panels that is lined inside with a peach coloured satin fabric. Beaded design is similar on both white ground sides, two large yellow, orange and blue diamonds with a line of three crowns at top and bottom, but one side has four diamonds within the larger diamonds and an attached strap in middle.