Object Number | NA8403 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Apache |
Provenience | North America |
Culture Area | Southwest Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Beads | Hide | Quill | Metal | Hair |
Description | Cylindrical, leather case for an awl. Beaded designs of horizontal bands of white, green, red, and blue. Closure flap over the opening is decorated with green beads and a red square enclosed in a white square repeated at both ends of the flap. Closure flap has dyed, blue hair and tinklers at the end. Two tassels near the opening have large, red beads. Two tassels at the bottom are made of leather wrapped with dyed, red quillwork and terminate in dyed, red hair and tinklers. |
Length | 31 cm |
Width | 1.8 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of William K. Jewett, 1918 |
Other Number | 23 - Collector Number |
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