String of Beads

Native American

  • Titles String of Beads (Descriptive)
  • Medium shell beads
  • Credit Line Gift of Dr. Sam Fischer, 1969.21.54
  • Work Type beads
  • Classification Objects

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Color photograph with four Native American women wearing jingle dress regalia and red bandana face-coverings, standing at Bonneville Salt Flats, blue cloudy sky in background.
Artist-manipulated digitally reproduced photograph by C.M. (Charles Milton) Bell; subject is Bia Eélisaash/Large Stomach Woman (Pregnant Woman) / Two Belly seated, half-length profile. Elements of regalia outlined in red and text annotations in red radiate from figure.
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.
Rectangular fired clay tile with painted scene of Pueblo warrior holding a priest or friar aloft, with Spanish soldier in foreground; adobe buildings in background surrounded by black smoke and flames.