Seven strands of varying lengths with white and purple tubular shell beads, bound at one end.

Bead Currency (wampum)

Native American , Eastern Woodlands

1750-1850

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Black and white photograph with four Navajo women wearing jingle dresses, with bandanas covering their faces, standing at the base of tall redwood trees.
Black and white photograph with four Native American women, each with one fist raised; Golden Gate bridge in background.
Square riddle or sieve loosely woven of split hickory, molded in the bottom with rounded edge.
Halibut hook (two part). The barb arm is of spruce with rusty iron barb. The carved arm is cottonwood representing "Hoosh-ta" the otter. The carving is recent, on an old piece of wood. The figure faces the barb, contrary to the usual practice - in part it seems the work of an amatuer.