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Image Title Creator Culture Accession # Materials/Techniques
Buffalo sinew strip tied in two knots Unidentified Native American; Pawnee 87.1 sinew
Parfleche envelope with yellow, green, red, and blue dyes Native American; Nez Perce 89.103 rawhide, pigment
Ivory cylinder with a carved animal head and two bears Arctic, Inuit 83.1361 Ivory
Inuit bird spear with ivory prongs Arctic, Inuit 84.1338 wood, ivory, rope, bone, twine and pigment
A knife sheath painted inside and out and a metal knife with a wooden handle Native American; Plains 84.784a-b leather, pigment, wood, metal
A leather knife sheath decorated with brass buttons Native American; Crow, possibly Blackfeet 84.781a-c leather, metal, wood, brass
Quirt decorated with brass tacks and four separate silver ornaments, rawhide lask, and piece of cloth tied to handle Native American; Plains 84.767 wood, brass, silver, rawhide
A beaded knife sheath and metal knife with a wood handle Native American; Plains 84.776a-b leather, glass, sinew, wood, metal
Ivory effigy toggle Native American; Inuit 83.1556 ivory
Standard sized axe shaped smelted copper Mesoamerican; Tarascan 63.261 copper
Ivory harpoon toggle butt Native American; Inuit 83.1505 fossil ivory
Obsidian blade Mesoamerican 61.8781 obsidian
Ivory harpoon foreshaft Native American; Inuit 83.1840 ivory
Ivory harpoon head Native American; Inuit 83.1282 ivory
Ivory harpoon foreshaft Native American; Inuit 83.1847 ivory
Ivory bear effigy toggle Native American; Inuit 83.1292 ivory
Ivory harpoon head Native American; Inuit 83.1466 ivory, glass beads
Large bi-facially chipped obsidian blade Mesoamerican 61.8782 mahogany variety of obsidian
Ice scoop with baleen Native American; Inuit 84.1685 wood, rawhide, bone, baleen
Ivory snow knife Native American; Inuit 83.1449 ivory