Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Max Hess, Jr. (1911-1968, head of the Hess Department store chain); donated to MAI by his widow, Elizabeth Douglass Hess (1912-1997), in 1968.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
- Previous owner
- Max Hess, Jr., Non-Indian, 1911-1968
- Donor
- Elizabeth Douglass Hess (Mrs. Max Hess Jr.), Non-Indian, 1912-1997
- Object Name
- Quiver
- Media/Materials
- Elk hide/skin, glass bead/beads
- Techniques
- Edge beaded , aboriginally repaired, overlay beadwork
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
