DESCRIPTION: Four native American items. Includes: 1) Crow Indian pendant suspended from tape loom beaded strip. Circa 1890-1900. Evidence of some dying to the edge now deteriorated. Pendant 3-1/2" diameter. Overall 15" long. Losses to bead at end fartest from pendant. 2) Two hair pike chokers, probably Northern Plains tribal circa 1880-1910. Spaced pipes between leather strips. Each approximately 15" long. One with losses and breaks to the cord. 3) Great Lakes tribal hat band circa 1890-1900. 35" long. Some wear and bead loss. PROVENANCE: Collected by Theodore Kepner Long (1856 - 1947) and then by gift to the Carson Long Military Academy. Raised in Millerstown (Pa.), Long attended Yale Law School before relocating to North Dakota where he became publisher of the Mandan Pioneer. He rose to prominence in the legal profession becoming a States Attorney for lands West of the Missouri River in 1885 and Attorney for N.P.R.R. Bismark North Dakota in 1887. The then moved to Chicago in 1894 before returning to New Bloomfield Pennsylvania and founding Carson Long Military Academy in 1914. MEASUREMENTS: See Description. CONDITION: See Description.