Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected by General William Nicholson Grier (1812-1885) during his service with the US Army (1835-1870); inherited by his daughter, Anna Grier Campbell (1846-1917) and then by her son Robert C. Campbell (1891-1966); donated to MAI by Robert C. Campbell in 1964.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Sioux
- Collector
- General William Nicholson Grier, Non-Indian, 1812-1885
- Previous owner
- General William Nicholson Grier, Non-Indian, 1812-1885
- Anna Grier Campbell (Mrs. George W. Campbell, Jr.), Non-Indian, 1846-1917
- Robert C. Campbell, Non-Indian, 1891-1966
- Donor
- Robert C. Campbell, Non-Indian, 1891-1966
- Date created
- 1894
- Object Name
- Bible bag
- Media/Materials
- Deerhide/deerskin
- Techniques
- Fringed
- Object Type
- Ceremonial/Ritual items
