Rolled rawhide covered with glass beading. Lizard is green with black eyes and mouth, black and white collar and yellow and white spots down back. Four legs are green with black edging; rawhide at base of legs is cut to appear like toes. Most likely made by Plains Indians. Could possibly be an umbilical cord amulet. They were common among the Plains Indians. This one represents a sand lizard. Lizards were usually used for infant boys and turtles for infant girls for placing umbilical cord tissue inside and usually buried with the person when they died.

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