Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected from Jack Bear (Sac and Fox) in 1909 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member), assisted by Chief William M. Skye (Peoria, 1868-1923) and Hope M. Fulbright (1879-1949), during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Winnebago [Nebraska]; collected from the Sac and Fox
- Artist/Maker
- attributed to Levi St. Cyr, Winnebago [Nebraska]
- Previous owner
- Jack Bear, Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox)
- Collector
- Chief William M. Skye (Bill Skye), Peoria, 1868-1923
- Hope M. Fulbright, Non-Indian, 1876-1949
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Date created
- 1908
- Object Name
- Pipe tomahawk
- Media/Materials
- Brass head, wood, fur, glass bead/beads, brass bell/bells, hide thong/babiche
- Techniques
- Carved, strung
- Object Type
- Personal items
- Indigenous Term
- pa" puk i he wi jik
