Fertility Charm
97-84-1022
From: United States of America | South Dakota | White River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 97-84-1022 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sioux |
| Provenience | United States of America | South Dakota | White River |
| Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Buckskin | Bead | Tin | Hair |
| Description | Woman's fertility charm in lizard form. Buckskin, with solidly beaded back, sky blue with yellow and navy "backbone" and red spots. Beaded legs ending in tinklers with red horsehair tufts. Ditto at mouth and tail. |
| Length | 36 cm |
| Width | 23 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997 |
| Other Number | L-84-1022 - Old Museum Number | 18768 - ANSP Number | II 649 - Gottschall Number |
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