Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected from Wind Woman (Northern Tsitsistas/Suhtai) in 1912 by anthropologist, naturalist, and author George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938); donated to MAI by George Bird Grinnell in 1922.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Northern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
- Previous owner
- Wind Woman, Northern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
- Collector
- Dr. George Bird Grinnell, Non-Indian, 1849-1938
- Previous owner
- Dr. George Bird Grinnell, Non-Indian, 1849-1938
- Donor
- Dr. George Bird Grinnell, Non-Indian, 1849-1938
- Object Name
- Pipe tomahawk
- Media/Materials
- Metal head, wood, brass tacks/bosses, glass bead/beads
- Techniques
- Carved, lazy/lane stitch beadwork
- Object Type
- Personal items
