Wooden bowl with schematic faces carved in relief on two vertical, stepped shaped, rim lugs, which are located opposite each other. The wood grain shows on the bowl along with some dark stains in the interior bottom. The brass is a Native repair. Wooden bowls with images generally were treasured and inherited, passed from generation to generation . Although the Delaware are often thought of as located in the eastern part of the North American continent after 1700 they are shown to have also migrated throughout Ohio and Indiana, as far north as Wisconsin, and south to Texas. Such bowls might have traveled with them. It is not known where Jarvis acquired this bowl.

This is a long, thin whistle with only one hole in the beak of a bird with metal tacks for eyes. The bird's head is carved at the end and painted blue-green on the outside and red on the inside. The nostril slits are also painted red. The stop is a piece of birch bark held in place with a sinew wrapping. Jarvis (the collector) original inscription reads, "Indian Flute Chippeway."

Brooklyn Museum Collection

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

This is a dark blue wool cloth dress with three bands of ribbon trim, red and white, along the bottom hem and sleeves. Individual teeth are tied in a yoke pattern on the front and back of the dress. The dress has rows and circles of brass and tin sequins on the skirt. Purple, ribbed silk binds the neck. The bottom hem has geometric cut edge so that it dips lower on each side than the front and back, a reference to historical hide dresses where the legs of the animal would be kept and oriented to the sides of the dress.

The cherry bark is dye and black. The string is cotton.

The felt is green. The cotton is beige. The disk is brass. The seed bead is clear, copper, red, orange, lime, green, yellow, blue, and green.

The tack is brass.

Horn spoon, S-shaped, dark brown with a greenish hue; handle carved with crest designs. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 9/3/2006]