Reflections of Our Ancestors, Old Agency Village, Leech Lake

Eugene Tapahe

2020

See More of the Collection

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.
Truncated cone shape, the flat top showing the 4 wide (5/8") strips of bark used as a foundation. The weaving is double, the inside much coarser than the outside.
Soap-berry spoon crudely made of red cedar
Vessel, Casas Grandes, Native American, terra cotta, polychrome