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Beaded leather moccasins with red and blue geometric designs against a white background
Unidentified
Beaded leather moccasins with red and blue geometric designs against a white background
Unidentified
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Quirt made from a dried turkey leg with claws / Native American; Sioux

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Quirt made from a dried turkey leg with claws; Braided buckskin lash; Buckskin fringe

Quirts are whips that are typically used with horses.

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Title(s): 
Quirt made from a dried turkey leg with claws
Culture: 
Native American; Sioux
Date: 
late 19th century
Period: 
Historic
Place: 
Great Plains, United States of America
Materials/Techniques: 
turkey leg, turkey claw, buckskin
Classification: 
Ethnographic Objects
Object Type: 
Quirt
Accession No: 
84.770
Department: 
Anthropology
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