Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased in 1910 from an unnamed pawn shop in Shawnee, Oklahoma, by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member) during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- probably Potawatomi (attributed); collected from the Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox)
- MAI agent
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Object Name
- Sash/Belt
- Media/Materials
- Hide, glass bead/beads, hide thong/babiche
- Techniques
- Loom beadwork
- Object Type
- Clothing/Garments: Accessories
- Indigenous Term
- k' tci' bi'
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