Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown, but said to have been collected in 1886; part of the collections of the Mattatuck Museum (Waterbury, Connecticut) until 1967 when it was donated to MAI by the Mattatuck Museum.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Northern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
- Donor
- Mattatuck Museum (Mattatuck Historical Society)
- Previous owner
- Mattatuck Museum (Mattatuck Historical Society)
- Date created
- 1875-1885
- Object Name
- Baby carrier/Moss bag
- Media/Materials
- Hide, porcupine quills, cotton cloth
- Techniques
- Quilled (lane stitched), quill-wrapped (flat)
- Object Type
- Transportation Items: Baby carriers
