Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Charles W. Hutchinson (1826-1896, a Utica, New York, banker, railroad owner, and collector); purchased by MAI from an unknown source in 1930.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Nakota (Yankton Sioux)
- Previous owner
- Charles W. Hutchinson (Charles Webster Hutchinson), Non-Indian, 1826-1896
- Object Name
- Whistle (Image withheld)
- Media/Materials
- Bird bone/bones, bird quills, porcupine quills
- Techniques
- Quill-wrapped (flat)
- Object Type
- Ceremonial/Ritual items
