Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected from Pamnuknuk (Prairie Band Potawatomi) 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
- Potawatomi [Prairie Band, Kansas]
- Previous owner
- Pamnuknuk (Pam nu'k i' nu'k/Pam-nu'k-nu'k), Potawatomi [Prairie Band, Kansas]
- Collector
- Chief William M. Skye (Bill Skye), Peoria, 1868-1923
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Date created
- circa 1890
- Object Name
- Prescription stick for Midewiwin rituals (Image withheld)
- Media/Materials
- Wood, pigment/pigments
- Techniques
- Incised, carved
- Dimensions
- 24 x 3.20 x 0.65 cm
- Object Type
- Indigenous Knowledge and Records
- Indigenous Term
- mte'g a tco ni' pi' a' ka ta"g
