Ceremonial Horned Rattle

 

Ceremonial songs were accompanied with rattles and drums used to represente the sound of animals: these rattles, depintig buffalo spirits, was used to imitate the noise of buffalos hooverstrampling the ground. Inside the rattles there are bone chips, rocks and beads to make proper sound. They are made with a tree brunch, buffalo rawhide.

Ceremonial Shamanic Stick

 

This staff represented with coyote skull was carried in cerimonial dance. Medicine man use for honoring unity of men and spirit. Medicine men has the power to speak with spirits and to purify places and people.

Knife sheath

 

The knife honors the tremendous task of carving all that was useful from the fallen buffalo: meat for food, organs for medicine, hide for clothing and shelter. The sheath is made of rawhide, blue trade cloth, brass tacks and a lazy stitch glass bead pattern of the buffalo.

   

       

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