Two Sioux umbilical fetishes buckskin

Two Sioux umbilical fetishes

buckskin, beads, metal cones and dyed horse hair, modelled as a lizard and tortoise,

26cm and 10.5cm long,

a pair of childs buckskin gauntlets with bead decoration, a pair of peg dolls, a male and a female with a child on her back, a plain peg and four sticks, the terminals carved a tortoise, a talon and two horse heads, one with a leather and quill collar. (11)

Provenance

The Ian West Collection.