Pair of Child’s Moccasins

Arapaho people, Cheyenne people, Plains region, Native American

19th century

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Halibut hook carving made of yew wood to represent the head and tail of an otter, the tail being shown by five incised lines. The piece is somewhat weathered. In the line hole were a wood plug and fragments of a spruce root line so the hook is an old-timer.
Moose band decorated with twelve sheet copper claws 4 3/4 inches which are fastened at the top to an iron wire ring 8 1/2 inches in diameter. Decorated with bits of moose leather.
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.
Black and white photograph with four Native American women, each with one fist raised, standing on boulders at water's edge.