A Bird-Quill Belt of the Sauk and Fox Indians: Indian Notes and Monographs, Vol. X, No. 5 (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Harrington, M.R. (Mark Raymond) (1882-1971)

Publisher: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation

Pub Date: 1920

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good.  Stapled binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Some foxing to edges.

Notes: A belt made of buffalo hide, with decorations of bird-quills.  Indian art before the introduction of glass beads.  “The belt formed part of the contents of a ‘war-bundle’ collected from the Sauk and Fox Indians of Oklahoma…an amulet and to confer warlike powers on the wearer,…” (from the text).