The figure is the one third from the left. It has an open mouth with closed eyes. One of his arms is held across his chest and the other across the chest touching his shoulder. His head has a serrated edge as if wearing a headdress. See also 03.325.4528- 34. These figures were all found together inside a painted pot. They were purchased from the German trader, Cronmeyer.

Silver bracelet with one green-colored stone set in a silver sunburst medallion. The front of the band consists of four (4) ridges alternating with three (3) furrows. Each ridge is decorated with roughly parallel, vertical incisions.

Stone carved in the shape of a bird with a hole drilled into center.

Black steatite pipe bowl with a serrated projection decoration on the short stem portion and grooves around the pipe bowl..

Anonymous gift in memory of Dr. Harlow Brooks

Whereas this bowl is not finely carved it does have an interesting four face motif around the black steatite pipe bowl.Unknown whether it was collected by Jarvis Sr. or Jarvis Jr.

THE JARVIS COLLECTION
The articles in this case and the adjacent clothing case [see 50.67.6] are some of the earliest and finest Eastern Plains pieces in existence. They were collected by Dr. Nathan Sturges Jarvis, a military surgeon stationed at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, between 1833 and 1836. Most items were made by the Eastern and Middle Dakota (Sioux) or by the peoples of the Red River region, including the Red River Métis, Anishinabe, Plains Cree, and Salteaux. Some of the objects were purchased by Jarvis, and others may have been given to him in exchange for his medical services.

By the early nineteenth century, the growing numbers of white settlers and military personnel—following decades of fur trading—had depleted much of the game on which the Dakota and Red River peoples depended. Indigenous ingenuity in combining trade materials such as cloth, metal, and glass beads with traditional hides, pipestone, and porcupine and bird quills is evident in these objects.

This pipe is a double wolf motif. The pipe stem itself is an elongated wolf ending in a wolf's head while a second wolf stands facing the opposite direction on the opposite side of the pipe bowl. Researcher Richard Sisson 4/23/2013 reviewed. Thought it might be Cherokee. To be researched before changing attribution.

Brooklyn Museum Collection

Henry L. Batterman Fund