One of the tampers has a horse head carved on one end and is decorated with beads and tin cones on the other. The two pipe tampers were purchased by the museum from Henry T. Neuman between 1927 and 1932. Museum staff identify the pipe tampers as Santee Sioux and the representatives from Cheyenne River Sioux tribe agree. The four rattles are made of wood and rawhide. Collection information indicates these rattles were sold to the museum by Henry T. Neuman between 1928-1929.
Stylistic analysis confirms their identification as being of Lakota origin.
The two whistles consist of an eagle humerus with proximal and anterior ends cut off. One whistle bares a red paint design. The other whistle has a mescal bean and a pink feather attached. No collection information is available for the other whistle, but stylistic analysis confirms its identification as being of Lakota origin. The shield consists of rawhide webbing decorated with golden eagle feathers, locks of horse hair, rings of gray fur, five clusters of smaller feathers, and two wooden piercing implements.