Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected by anthropologist Wilson D. Wallis (1886-1970) in 1912 during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Mi'kmaq (Micmac)
- Collector
- Wilson D. Wallis, Non-Indian, 1886-1970
- Object Name
- Pincushion
- Media/Materials
- Birchbark, silk cloth, porcupine quills, glass bead/beads, thread
- Techniques
- Stitched, dyed, quill embroidered, edge beaded
- Object Type
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
