Name/Title
AmuletEntry/Object ID
ED2006.236.12.006Description
A stuffed leather and beadwork umbilical lizard fetish. Object is 10" long x 3 1/2" wide at widest point. Features white, yellow, red beads predominately, with dark multicolored accent beads on top with small bells on tail and feet. Donor states that this is a reproduction and that object may have been made by machine. Also states that every time a baby was born the mother would design an animal shape, important to the family or a hard to kill one, and would sew the baby's cord inside of it and put it on the cradle board. The child would carry these with them throughout life. They are usually kept until the person died, then most times they are cut open and the cord is taken out and destroyed.Collection
Educational Collection