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Image Title Creator Culture Accession # Materials/Techniques
Woman's cape with beadwork and fringe Unidentified Native American; Kiowa 84.1792b hide (buckskin), glass, metal, shell (cowie)
Trade bead necklace with mescal beans Unidentified, Emil William Lenders Native American; Ponca (artist and user) 80.4 bean (mescal)
Trade bead necklace created with mescal beans Unidentified Native American; Tonkawa 80.6 bean (mescal)
Trade bead necklace with additional mescal beans Unidentified, Emil William Lenders Native American; Otoe-Missouria (artist and user) 80.8 bean (mescal)
Trade bead necklace with mescal beans Unidentified Native American; Osage (artist and user) 80.9 bean (mescal)
Woman's dress with beadwork and fringe Unidentified Native American; Kiowa 84.1792a hide (buckskin), glass, metal, seed (mescal), shell (cowie), cotton, plastic
Woman's hide dress with cape and silk ribbons Unidentified Native American; Kiowa 84.1792a-b hide, glass, metal, seed, shell (cowrie), cotton, plastic
Blanket strip with beaded geometric designs, medallions, mescal beads, and feathers Unidentified Native American; possibly Cheyenne or Sioux 84.2153 hide, glass, metal, brass, bean (mescal), feather
Mescal bean necklace interspersed with glass and white beads, strung on fine wire Unidentified, Mary and Lawrence Bryan, Ernest Emmett Thompson Native American; Kaw 84.3025 bean (mescal), metal, glass
Necklace with mescal beans, bear claws, and turtle vertebra Wolf Robe Hunt, Solomon McCombs Native American; Acoma 84.2285 claw (bear), bean (mescal), glass, hide, turtle