Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected or purchased from an unknown source by George Heye after 1919; removed from the MAI collection and exchanged by MAI to the Vassar Brothers Institute (an educational society in Poughkeepsie, New York) in 1928; returned to MAI as a gift from the Vassar Brothers Institute in 1948.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Seneca [Tonawanda]
- Collector
- George Gustav Heye (GGH), Non-Indian, 1874-1957
- Previous owner
- Vassar Brothers Institute
- Donor
- Vassar Brothers Institute
- Object Name
- Burden strap/tumpline
- Media/Materials
- Cordage
- Techniques
- Fingerwoven
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
