Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected from Pu'-thi'-ki'-u' (Meskwaki) in 1910 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
- Meskwaki (Fox)
- Previous owner
- Pu'-thi'-ki'-u', Meskwaki (Fox) [Tama, Iowa]
- Collector
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Object Name
- Saddle blanket
- Media/Materials
- Wool cloth, ribbon, glass bead/beads
- Techniques
- Sewn, overlay beadwork
- Object Type
- Animal Tack and Animal Husbandry
- Indigenous Term
- pu' ka tci' gun
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