Indian umbilical cord bags made of buffalo leather, size 14 cm, from the trunk of the Lakota-Sioux (South Dakota, USA) with a colored bast and bristle carefully decorated from the head of a porcupine (see another object made of buffalo leather with a glass pier, "Search: umbilical cord bag"). Protective/magical power is attributed to the fetish. There are also some colored bristles of young porcupines that were used for embroidery. Therese Princess of Bavaria brought comparable pieces from her expedition -like trips to the Indians of North America in 1893. Your extensive ethnological collection is in the museum five continents, Munich (formerly: Museum of Ethnology), which otherwise has a number of interesting turtle objects. The versatile researcher (ethnology, zoology, botany) is dedicated to a bust in the fame hall in Munich. "The interest in rarities shared the Wittelsbacher with many European princes," said Duke Frank von Bayern in the greeting to the book "Exotic Worlds" (from the ethnic collections of the Wittelsbacher 1806 - 1848 / Staaliches Museum of Ethnology Munich, 2007). There is a second copy to be found under "Search: umbilical cord bag". [hint: this is an automatic translation from German]   |   Category: Kultgegenstände   |   Material: Leder   |   Country of origin: South Dakota, United States   |   Artist: Dorothy Brave Eagle | Similar pieces