Medicine Pouch
59-12-1
From: New Mexico (uncertain) | Arizona (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 59-12-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Navajo |
| Provenience | New Mexico (uncertain) | Arizona (uncertain) |
| Culture Area | Southwest Culture Area |
| Date Made | 1907-1946 CE |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Leather | Silver |
| Description | Saddle leather sewn with rawhide thong; flap decorated with a row of three fluted silver buttons; beneath them a row of four US dimes with a die stamped button in middle; below the center button a similar one which serves as the flap button; along bottom edge of flap a row of six dimes; strap leather with row of 71 dimes attached like buttons with a rawhide thong passing through the loops on their backs. |
| Length | 15.2 cm |
| Width | 12.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Helen Greene, 1959 |
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