Return Of The Sacred Bundle

Native American Gros Ventre (Big Belly) elders Foolish Bear and Drags Wolf, of the Water Busters clan, pose with two other Water Busters elders and the Sacred Bundle, the clan's traditional talisman against drought and pestilence, and guarantees good crops, after the bundle had been returned from the Heye American Indian Museum, which received a sacred Buffalo Medicine Horn in return, in Montana, United States, December 1937. The Sacred Bundle had been bought by Presbyterian missionary GF Wilson, who paid $30; Wilson later sold the bundle to the Heye Foundation for $175. (Photo by Leo D. Harris/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)