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	Catalog #	Name	Description
1	1974.24.7	Drawing	Ansel Briggs. Page 59 of "A Cartoon History of Iowa". Artist: Herb Hake
2	1974.24.9	Drawing	Iowa farmer. Page 133 of "A Cartoon History of Iowa". Artist: Herb Hake
3	2007.3.6	Figure	Songye Kifwebe Power figure. Male figure with distended abdomen. Skirt attached. Figure wearing 2 necklaces, one with blue beads and a white pendant, and the other a wooden bead choker. Figure is wearing a kifwebe mask. Holes along mask/skull line. Base of statue is attached to metal stand. Small hole in skull. Hair in nostrils. Base of figure is damaged, missing a piece, statue is worn and wood is dinged, scratched, and worn. Possible paint on mask, but very worn. Wooden choker is fragile, thread weak. Woven skirt is damaged, loose ties, torn and frayed.
4	2009.6.16	Basket	Large brown basket with two shoulder straps. The straps can be adjusted by re-tying the large knot in the front. There are four small legs on the bottom of the basket. There are vertical pertruding pieces all the way around the basket as well as a single horizontal strip about a 1/4 of the way down from the top. Flat area with straps for the back. Color: BN
5	2010.17.33	Cover, food	Made from millets and grasses with dyed 'pompoms' that have been sewn into the piece, can be used as a top and as a bowl of sorts. top (A) and bottom (B) overall diamond shape Color: RD,BL,GR,PK,OR,
6	2010.17.66	Dallah	Large intricate coffeepot with 'beak' style spout, spout cover with knob, traditional stacked lid, signature on side, handle bound in goat skin leather (probably to help with heat after boiling) patterns on upper portion of vessel, hourglass shape.
7	2016-35-1	Mask	Nahua Jaguar Head Mask This mask represents the jaguar and is part of the Festival of the Holy Cross in Mexico. This festival is celebrated on May 3rd. During this festival three crosses, one from each barrio, are moved from the mountain top down to the river side. Beads and flowers are used to decorate the cross and they are paraded through the town and back to the mountain top. During this procession, two dancers dressed as jaguars fight in the main plaza. While other dance groups do perform during the festival, they withdraw when the jaguars approach. The jaguars who fight dedicate themselves to San Nicolas, their patron saint, and who they see as the Lord of the Jungle. These battles are thought to appease the deities for a successful planting season.