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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Rattle in shape of a raven, carrying on its back a reclining figure with bent knees and extended tongue; human figure is joined by his tongue to a frog, which is held in the beak of a kingfisher bird, whose head is depicted (without a body) and located closest to the handle of the rattle. The underside of the rattle (the raven's belly) has the abstracted features of a human face.
Artist-manipulated digitally reproduced photograph by C.M. (Charles Milton) Bell; subject is Peelatchiwaaxpáash / Medicine Crow (Raven) seated, full figure, three-quarter view; elements of regalia outlined in red, and text annotations in red radiate from figure.
The totemic design is well done but rather recent. The paint is vermilion and ball bluing blue. Totemic designs occupy two sides and a design (see card) is on each of the other sides. The box is of red cedar, pegged side and bottom. New looking almost.
Neolithic figurative celt. Found in Alabama on the Coosa River near Crotwell and Leeds THIS OBJECT HAS INCORRECT #, ACTUAL PIECE WAS RETURNED FROM TANNEHILL APRIL 2014.