Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected from Mary French (Ontario Ojibwe) in 1907 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member); purchased by George Heye, presumably from Harrington's firm, Covert & Harrington, Commercial Ethnologists (New York City), in 1907.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Ontario Ojibwe
- Previous owner
- Mary French, Chippewa/Ojibwa
- Collector
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Seller
- Covert & Harrington, Commercial Ethnologists
- Object Name
- Burden strap/Tumpline
- Media/Materials
- Cordage
- Techniques
- Woven
- Object Type
- Transportation Items
- Indigenous Term
- pik gun
