Antique Native American Umbilical Fetishes

Northern Plains turtle fetish. Plain turtle form in white and green beads on brain tanned hide, buckskin backed with muslin belly. Tin cone drops w...

Matched pair fully beaded lizard fetishes. Geometric designs on opalescent background with brown edge beading. Double tin cones on feet and tail. 7...

Sioux turtle fetish with alternating cobalt blue and greasy yellow beadwork with filled in back of scatter beads. Sinew sewn on brain tanned hide.P...

Sioux stylized lizard fetish with white belly and legs with cobalt blue checkerboard and edge beading. Center blue and green. Sinew sewn slit in be...

Sioux beaded umbilical fetish in the form of a turtle. Ex. Bonhams, Ex. Amelia Malia De Schulthess. 6" x 3" plus legsPERIOD: Late 19th CenturyORIGI...

Turtle fetish with checkerboard design of red white hearts and blue rectangles. Legs are brain tanned and splayed hide, wrapped in red quills. Br...

About 1900-05 a train carrying Indians was wrecked outside a little town near Chicago called Maywood. The doctor in charge, Mrs. Clark's father, to...

Jemez hunting fetish used for generations, much handled. Came with later-made pouch keeper.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Southwest - Jemez, Native Am...

19th century lizard fetish on buffalo calfskin with double tin cones for legs.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: Great Plains - Sioux, Native AmericanSIZE...

Sioux turtle fetish with fringed legs. Red white hearts with stylized blue crosses having white centers and outlined in greasy yellows with green.P...

Sioux lizard fetish with green background having red and white accents. Tin cones with feather fluffs. Ex. G. Fennimore Johnson.PERIOD: Late 19th C...

Sioux turtle fetish with green and red background having light blue beaded edging.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: South Dakota, Native AmericanSIZE: ...

Sioux lizard fetish with green buffalo hoof design with pink background and blue accents and outside beading. Brain tanned fringe with quill work o...

Sioux stylized lizard fetish with tin cones having horse hair drops for legs and tail. Red white heart centers with orange and green checkerboard s...

Sioux lizard fetish with cobalt blue and white edging alternating with blue and red. Tin cones having red trade cloth.PERIOD: Late 19th Century ORI...

Sioux lizard fetish with tin cones and blue dyed feather fluffs for legs, tail and tongue. Geometric lines interspersed with scatter beads. Muslin ...

Sioux lizard fetish with red white hearts having cobalt blue and white beaded edging with beaded legs. Ex. Museum of the Yellowstone.PERIOD: Late 1...

Sioux turtle fetish. White with red white heart accents having tin cones holding yellow feather fluffs as legs.PERIOD: 19th CenturyORIGIN: South Da...

Sioux turtle/lizard fetish with blue background and dark green, yellow, blue and white checkerboard through center.PERIOD: Late 19th Century ORIGIN...

Sioux lizard fetish with greasy yellows, dark blue and green beading having metallic beads through center for accent.PERIOD: Late 19th Century ORIG...