The lot features a fantastic circa 1800's Northern Plains Buffalo / Bison Scrotum rawhide rattle with pictorial polychrome painting and beadwork with old collection tag. The piece shows a stripped wood handle wrapped in buffalo / bison parfleche hide with rawide lacing sewing with buffalo / bison hide wrapping showing short fringes, dark patina coloring and a section of 1800's glass trade seed beads in greasy greeen with trade and sinew sewing. The rattle is a Great American Bison Buffalo scrotum sack rawhide parfleche sewn with sinew lacing and showing Indian hide fringes adorned with rolled tin jingle dangle cones with red dyed horse tail hair fringes. The front shows a pictorial polychrome painted Northern Plains Warrior human fighure holding a pipe tomahawk in dance ceremonial regalia with colors of green, red, blue, black and white with a band of yellow. The back of the rattle shows a graphite drawn design. The inside of the rattle has small pebbles giving a nice rattle sound. The bottom handle which is hand painted "BB-115-21" an old museum / collection number. The original tag reads on both sides, "Northern Plains Rawhide Rattle. Pictorial Painted on both sides. 1800's Collection #". From a fine Native American collection of artifacts and early Navajo blankets in Michigan. Measures overall 15.75-inches long by 5-inches wide by 4.5-inches deep. Large size and well kept piece.