Navel Amulet
date: label: Accession Date
content: 11 Jun 1992
name: label: Donor Name
content: Florence Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: CONSTRUCTED OF TWO PIECES OF TANNED DEER SKIN. SIDE SEAMS SINEW SEWN CLOSED WITH SEVEN BEAD EDGING STITCH (HAIL: 1980:51) IN OPAQUE WHITE GLASS SEED BEADS. ANIMAL FIGURE, LIZARD?, WITH FOUR LEGS, A TAIL, AND HEAD. FRONT DECORATED IN LAZY STITCHED OPAQUE GREEN AND WHITE GLASS SEED BEADS. FOUR OPAQUE BLUE GLASS SEED BEADS STITCHED INTO PATTERN ON FACE AREA OF HEAD. BEADWORK HEAVILY ENCRUSTED WITH DIRT. BACK OF FIGURE UNDECORATED. SKIN STRINGS SEWN WITH SINEW ONTO END OF EACH APPENDAGE, WRAPPPED WITH RED AND GREEN DYED AND UNDYED? QUILL WORK. SOME QUILL WORK CRACKED AND LOOSE. ASSOCIATED WITH PARFLECHE IN CATALO NO. E425948. ACCORDING TO DONOR'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, THIS OBJECT BELONGED TO CHIEF SITTING BULL.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jan 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Lakota
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 380523
label: USNM Number
content: E425953-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Charm
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 31 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 10.5 cm