Southern Plains Humanoid Beaded Fetish

Item: 1687

Origin: Southern Plains or Apache
Date: Circa 1900
Media: Hide, glass beads, sinew
Dimensions: 7 3/4″ by 1 1/8″, by 3/4″ deep

Description:  This is an eerily cool beaded fetish, possibly an umbilical cord fetish.  One thought is that it might be a gila monster.  The face is dramatic, as are the alternating colors of blue, red and purple.   There are two small ears that are beaded all the way to the top.  The beads are sewn with sinew.

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Condition: Condition is original with no restoration.

Provenance: From a private collection in Seminole, TX and originally purchased at the Gallery of the Old West, Santa Fe, NM, Sept 1984

Price: 1800