Name/Title
Item list from F.W. Bohle to Harry GeorgeEntry/Object ID
Q1430.634.26GDescription
Vol I pg. 26G
A three page document titled "Inventory of Indian Curios," which is part of a private collection by F.W. Hohne. This typed list details various indigenous artifacts, primarily attributed to the Sioux, with some items from Apache, Pueblo, and Navajo origins. It includes personal belongings of Chief Iron Tail, such as a shirt decorated with 85 ermine skins and a war bonnet adorned with 100 eagle feathers. Other listed items are a dancing hat, hair dress, armbands, stone pipes, tobacco bags, and game bags featuring bead and quill work. Also mentioned are drums, war clubs, bows, Navajo arrows, scalp lock ornaments, feather hats, and ear ornaments made from antelope bones. Additionally, clothing items such as squaw leggings, papoose leggings, men's leather pants, and a squaw dress with painted buckskin, beads, and shells are included. The list continues with garments like a girl's dress, boy's vest, and shirt with bead.
The second page shows a list titled "Alaska Curios," detailing various items such as a perforated stone charm, carved wooden fish-hook, gambling sticks, and a braided leather bag. It includes ceremonial capes adorned with animal teeth and tusks, necklaces with antler-hoof pendants, and a hand ornament with reindeer horn. There are wooden rattles, walrus ivory pendants with hieroglyphic etchings, a leather cord with reindeer-horn charms, and various.
This list continues onto page three with various artifacts and items including necklaces made of seashells, petrified wood, and silver, a very old blanket, and stone adzes from Arizona. Other entries include pottery pieces, a boomerang, a buffalo robe, an obsidian awl, and a wooden toy. Some items are noted as being from specific indigenous groups or regions, such as Zuni, Navajo, and Sioux.
The document is not dated.Subject
F. W. Bohle, F.W.
Shirt
Bonnet -- War
Hat
Bags
Drums
Sioux
Pueblo
Navajo
Moccasins
Apache
Necklaces
Blanket
Cliff Dwellers
AlaskaSubject Person/Organization
Harry L. George Collection
