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Image Title Creator Culture Accession # Materials/Techniques
Fountain pen with wooden handle American TU2009.39.251b wood, metal
Small war club constructed of a stick handle attached to a rock head with a secure wrap of rawhide Native American; Plains 84.2455 wood, leather, buffalo hair, beads, sinew, stone
Ivory sinker Arctic, Inuit 83.1481 Ivory
Large ceramic Chupicuaro "Formative Period" vessel Mesoamerican; Chupicuaro 54.4228 clay, slip, paint
Ceramic human effigy maskette Mesoamerican; Toltec 54.7313 clay
Fully beaded soft cradleboard Native American; Sioux 84.734 buckskin, beads, metal, sinew
Beaded and quilled leather moccasins Native American; Sioux 84.377a-b leather, quills, glass, cotton cloth, animal hair, cotton string
Jade human face effigy Mesoamerican; Teotihuacan 55.101 jadeite
War club with a stick handle attached to a rock head with a secure wrap of rawhide Native American; Sioux 84.1073 wood, leather, horse hair, beads, sinew, stone
Ceramic bowl with painted zoomorphic designs Central American; Panamanian, Gran Coclé 54.3386 clay
Jade ceremonial adz Mesoamerican 55.232 jade
Three dark brown roundish erasers American TU2009.39.92a-c rubber
Round bead or pendant Mesoamerican; Mayan 61.8592 jade
Effigy toggle Arctic, Inuit 83.1157 Ivory, Leather
Third Mesa wicker basketry plaque Native American; Hopi 71.86 sumac, rabbit brush, willow, yucca
Soft soled leather moccasins with velvet and floral beadwork on the vamp and cuff Native American; Chippewa 84.275a-b leather, glass, velvet, silk, cotton string
Beaded strike-a-light bag with metal cones Emil William Lenders Native American; Otoe-Missouria (artist and user) 84.562 hide, glass, metal
Stone effigy figure Mesoamerican 61.8797 stone