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Image Title Creator Culture Accession # Materials/Techniques
Inuit bird spear with ivory prongs Arctic, Inuit 84.1338 wood, ivory, rope, bone, twine and pigment
Sacred Rain Arrow Allan C. Houser Native American; Chiricahua Apache 08.185 bronze
Letter to Mr. F. S. Barde in Guthrie, Oklahoma from Geo L. Miller American 3827.8233a ink on paper
A beaded knife sheath and metal knife with a wood handle Native American; Plains 84.776a-b leather, glass, sinew, wood, metal
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
Indian Tribes Fighting Unknown American TU2009.39.6732a gelatin silver process
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
Bone projectile point Arctic, Inuit 83.1903 Bone
A leather knife sheath with brass buttons decorating the edge and some quillwork still visible Native American; Plains 84.785 leather, brass, quill
Stemmed projectile point Mesoamerican 61.8613 obsidian
Indian Tribes Fighting Unknown American TU2009.39.6732b gelatin silver process
Sharp’s Carbine Rifle model 1863 American 62.50 wood, metal
Ivory projectile point Arctic, Inuit 83.2000 Ivory
Parfleche knife sheath with painted designs Native American; Plains 89.58 leather
Serrated projectile point Mesoamerican 61.8616 obsidian
Northern Plains shield cover Unknown, Joseph Henry Sharp Collection Native American; possibly Oc'eti S'akowin (Great Sioux Nation) or Crow 89.114 paint on rawhide, feathers
Obsidian blade Mesoamerican 61.8781 obsidian
Ivory harpoon point Arctic, Inuit 83.2001 Ivory
Beaded rawhide lance case with Stroud cloth fringe Native American; Crow 84.1914 leather, glass, pigment, wool, metal