Gourd peyote rattle with wood handle
Gourd peyote rattle with carved and beaded handle, horsehair topper, and leather fringe
Pair of wooden stickball sticks with leather netting / Jimmie Deere
Essay/Description
A pair of ball sticks in the Creek style common in the 20th century. They are well carved and the holes (around the cup) are burned rather than drilled. The "net" is strung with deerskin that has seems halfway tanned (i.e. half rawhide). The lace used in netting the cup is wrapped around the whole stick at the base of the cup. An additional wrapping is at the place where the shorter bent section concludes against the handle. Below this point the handle is a single solid round piece.