Cedar box/pouch
Arapahoe medicine box/cedar pouch; six sided; white buckskin. Beadwork design: four pointed star design centered on two outsides in white, blue and red seed beads, lazy-stich. All six sides edged with blue and white beadwork in Peyote-stich. Looped (6), lazy stiched beaded fringe in red, white and blue.
- Object: Cedar box/pouch
- Artist: Singing Bear, Lump Mouth
- Circa: -
- Dimensions: 8-1/2"long 3-3/4" wide
- Culture Area: Plains
- Cultural Group: Arapaho
- Cultural Context: These pouches are used for feeding the fire in the sweatlodge. Containing cedar splints, they sit open next to the medecine man, who reaches in them from time to time to take some cedar to feed the fire.
- Donor: Scott Stegman
- Catalog #: 81.044