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Belt43.201.30

Long belt with droppers on the end where it would be tied.

Culture
Plains and Crow
Material
hide, bead and brass metal
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Spoon with Handle in Shape of Bird's Head63.201.1

This extremely graceful spoon is carved from one piece of horn that has beautiful amber and brown striations in its coloring. The bowl is very thin and large. The handle is a round delicate tube that curves from the bowl and after a length curves back almost 180 degrees to culminate in a water bird head with a long open beak.

Culture
Plains
Material
buffalo horn
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Back and Seat of Chair with White, Purple, Green, Orange and Black Quilled Star Design09.867a-b

This type of quilled article is a prime example of the ingenuity of the artist to take traditional materials, quills, normally used in bags and clothing decoration and fashion a new item for the trade markets. The seat cushion reflects the Victorian mode of seat cushions used in non-Native homes of the period.

Culture
Plains and Micmac (Mi'kmaq)
Material
porcupine quill and birchbark
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Garter50.67.37d

This garter is loom woven probably without the use of a heddle. It has both the warp and weft made of thread with small seed beads. The beads are patterned with long lines of diamonds in black, yellow, and lavender. See other garters 50.67.37 a,b,c.shown in additional photogrpahs.

Culture
Chippewa, Hochunk and Plains
Material
thread, yarn and glass seed bead
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Headband43.156.12

Headband with white bead background with blue, green, red, and yellow beaded plant-like designs.

Culture
Plains, Woodlands and Ute
Material
bead and cotton thread
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Whip50.67.38

This horsehair whip is possibly Blackfoot from the Montana area made by braiding dyed horsehair over a rawhide base and handle.

Culture
Plains, Plateau and Blackfoot
Material
horse hair and rawhide hide
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Pair of Moccasins1997.105.2a-b

Object is a pair of moccasins, the fronts of which have blue, red-brown, and white beads. Cuffs are red wool; rawhide ties are natural. Very fine pair: spot stitch, side seam. Probably Plains Cree from Rocky Boy Reservation, which is nearby Glacier National Park, Montana, where these were collected.

Culture
Plains, Cree and Sioux
Material
hide, bead and wool
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Pipe Bowl representing Owl80.98.2

Catlinite or pipestone pipe bowl carved in the form of an owl perched on a rectangular bar. Beak, tufts, eyes, and legs carved with details of eyes and feathers indicated by incised lines. The back of the bowl, under the bird, is carved with a serrated edge and turns up at the end as though that owl had a tail. The area around the opening in the owl's head is blackenedmining rights are for Native Americans.A pipe stem would be added to this bowl for smoking.Catlinite is only found in the Minnesota region in what is called Pipestaone National Parkk. Use of pipestone is restricted to Native Americans.

Culture
Plains
Material
catlinite ? or pipestone ?
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Headdress2783/1

A headdress with a beadwork head band trimmed cap made of skin and beige fabric from which extends a crown of long brown eagle feathers. Each feather has an attached diamond-shaped piece of burgundy velvet fabric with white down feathers at the tip and the bottom ends are wrapped with green and red felt-like fabric and attached to the cap above the beadwork with skin loops. The head band has a design of mountains and crosses in red, green, orange, blue and pink on a white background, a large metal pin at the centre, and strands of metal, plastic and seed beads draped around it. From each side of the cap hang feathers, red ribbons with plastic hoops, bundles of dark hair, and strands of brass beads.

Culture
Plains
Material
eagle feather, glass, skin, metal, cotton fibre, hair, plastic and adhesive
Made in
Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Beaded Panel1003/86

Beadwork on a wide band. The beadwork consists of a multicoloured floral pattern with three flowers, two buds, and two leaves on a white beaded background. The backing fabric is pink, with a red leaf pattern.

Culture
Plains ?
Material
glass, dye and fibre
Made in
Alberta, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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