Female stuffed doll in a bead decorated black coat and red skirt stands on rectangular wood feet. The head is a stuffed and painted piece of canvas with a painted mop-like trim sewn on around the top. A piece of cow hide with hair is wrapped around her shoulders, as are strands of black and white beads and seeds. In her hand, she holds a white hair brush with bead worked base. The legs appear to be wood are covered with a black fabric.

Fringed amulet with knotted skin ties. Numerous strands of twined brown rope, each with a loop of five white beads at the bottom, are stitched between rectangular pieces of thick canvas with dark beading on the front and at edges. One strand of white beads is looped across the top of the fringe. Each of the ties is knotted into a large loop at the loose end, one loops through a large button, the other loops over the button.

Fringed amulet with skin ties knotted through beaded canvas. Numerous strands of twined brown rope, each with a loop of four black beads at the bottom, are stitched between rectangular pieces of thick canvas with dark beading on the front and at edges. One strand of white beads is looped across the top of the fringe.

Beaded hide apron with straight top and five scalloped panels hanging along the bottom. Brass ring trim at edge of waist flap. The lower front is divided into 5 hanging panels of varied length, with a small tab at each side. Beaded motifs in green, blue, pink, brown, and red in a white background include bands along the top, a house with a cross on the roof in the centre, and a Z and a cross on the central hanging panel.

Skin apron with beadwork on rolled waist band and in a thick band across the waist flap. Stitched to the edge of the flap are two rows of brass and copper rings and knotted into it at one side is a skin tie. The front skin surface is blackened (possibly shoe polish).

THE NATIVE AMERICANS: THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF NORTH AMERICA. TAYLOR, COLIN F., 1991, Publisher: SALAMANDER BOOKS, LTD

THE NATIVE AMERICANS: THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF NORTH AMERICA. TAYLOR, COLIN F., 1991, Publisher: SALAMANDER BOOKS, LTD

THE NATIVE AMERICANS: THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF NORTH AMERICA. TAYLOR, COLIN F., 1991, Publisher: SALAMANDER BOOKS, LTD