Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected from three Prairie Band Potawatomi individuals (Chief Ma-ci'-no, Inwa"k-to and Sa-w'is) 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
- Potawatomi [Prairie Band, Kansas]
- Previous owner
- Chief Ma ci' no, Potawatomi [Prairie Band, Kansas]
- Inwa"k to, Potawatomi [Prairie Band, Kansas]
- Sa wi's, Potawatomi [Prairie Band, Kansas]
- 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
- Date created
- 1870-1900
- Object Name
- Hair comb
- Media/Materials
- Silver
- Techniques
- Hammered, cut, stamped, perforated
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Indigenous Term
- co ne' a'n nas kwa" wan
