Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected from A-na'-want (Meskwaki) in 1910 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member), assisted by Chief William M. Skye (Peoria, 1868-1923), during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Meskwaki (Fox)
- Previous owner
- A-na'-want, Meskwaki (Fox)
- Collector
- Chief William M. Skye (Bill Skye), Peoria, 1868-1923
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Object Name
- Love charm
- Media/Materials
- Metal thimble/thimbles, glass bead/beads, metal bead/beads, ribbon
- Techniques
- Strung
- Object Type
- Personal items
- Indigenous Term
- ka" pi' ai
