beaded harness and war/love medicine

Green, light blue, rose, red, royal blue beads in a diamond pattern on a white background, ending in red and blue pom-poms. The loom beading is sewn on canvas and leather material. Leather material with medicinal herbs is pinned to the harness1.2 mBeaded harness. This piece was secured in trade from Louis Shipshee, an Indian trader of Potawatomi descent, Topeka, Kansas, in 1966. Mr. Shipshee said that he had secured this harness and the belt, item No. 11, from an Indian family at Indian City, a commercial enterprise near Anadarko, Oklahoma, and believed that it as Arapaho work. This may be true, but in our opinion the design has more of the look of Omaha, Winnebago, or Oto beadwork, the yarn tassels being an especially Prairie" or "Woodland" area feature not usually seen in the craft work of High Plains tribes such as the Arapaho. John Turner, an Omaha of Macy, Nebraska, identified the design as being typically Omaha, and Mr. George St. Cyr, Winnebago of Winnebago, Nebraska, identified it as typically Winnebago." Omaha war and love medicine (attached to harness)" This medicine packet was transferred to James Howard in 1950 by its previous owner, George Phillips, an Omaha Indian of the Tapa or Deer clan. The medicine andbeadwork, appliquébeads9.0 c