Object Details
- Collection History
- Borrowed by the Warner Brothers film company from the Northern Cheyenne Arts & Crafts Association (Lame Deer, Montana) and exhibited during promotional tours for the 1964 Warner Brothers film "Cheyenne Autumn"; transferred by Warner Brothers to MAI in 1965; purchased by MAI from the Northern Cheyenne Arts & Crafts Association in 1965.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Northern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
- Previous owner
- Northern Cheyenne Arts & Crafts Association
- Seller
- Northern Cheyenne Arts & Crafts Association
- Date created
- 1964
- Object Name
- Travois poles
- Media/Materials
- Wood, hide
- Techniques
- Cut
- Object Type
- Transportation Items
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