Medicine Bag
37678
From: United States of America | North Dakota | Devil's Lake Reservation
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Wo-Pi-Yo |
| Object Number | 37678 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sisseton |
| Provenience | United States of America | North Dakota | Devil's Lake Reservation |
| Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Otter Skin | Quill | Metal |
| Description | Entire body of otter. Claws removed and replaced with quilled checkerboard panels on buckskin. Tinklers hang from these panels. Tail covered in quilled buckskin with tinklers. Head stuffed with plant fiber. Top of head has traces of green or blue pigment, ears have buckskin cords wrapped with cords or tinklers. A line of bells runs along the spin. |
| Length | 71.12 cm |
| Credit Line | John Wanamaker Expedition, 1900; R. Stewart Culin, 1900 |
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