Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased from an unnamed trader's store at the Darlington Agency, Oklahoma, 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
- Southern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
- MAI agent
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Date created
- 1870-1900
- Object Name
- Concho/concha
- Media/Materials
- German silver ("nickel silver"/copper-nickel alloy)
- Techniques
- Hammered, stamped
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
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