Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected from Sheep (Apsáalooke) in 1923 by anthropologist William (Willem) Wildschut (1883-1955) during fieldwork sponsored by MAI.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
- Previous owner
- Sheep, Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
- Collector
- William Wildschut (Willem Wildschut), Non-Indian, 1883-1955
- Object Name
- Quirt
- Media/Materials
- Wood
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Animal Tack and Animal Husbandry
- Indigenous Term
- iichíiliche
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