Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected from Chief Joe Billy (Pem Mep To, 1835-1917, traditional leader of the Big Jim Band of Absentee Shawnee) in 1910 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member), assisted by Chief William M. Skye (Peoria, 1868-1923) and expedition interpreter Leo Walker (Sac and Fox), during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Oklahoma Shawnee
- Previous owner
- Chief Joe Billy (Pem Mep To/i'le'ni we ga wi'), Absentee Shawnee [Shawnee, Oklahoma-Pottawatomie County], 1835-1917
- Collector
- Chief William M. Skye (Bill Skye), Peoria, 1868-1923
- Leo Walker, Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox)
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Object Name
- Man's vest
- Media/Materials
- Deerhide/deerskin, cotton cloth, glass bead/beads, wool yarn, button/buttons
- Techniques
- Sewn, lined, raised beadwork, overlay beadwork, strung
- Dimensions
- 57 x 53.8 cm
- Object Type
- Clothing/Garments
- Indigenous Term
- betc wa ga te' gi dje' kiti
