Calendar stick
Object Details
- Collection History
- Said to have been collected by Paul Logan in 1894 from an unnamed Winnebago man who said it had been in his family for fifty years; formerly in the collection of Indian art collector David T. Vernon (1900-1973); acquired by MAI in 1968 through an exchange with the Jackson Hole Preserve, Inc. (a foundation backed by the Rockefeller family), which purchased Vernon's entire collection in 1965.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- 1800-1850
- Catalog Number
- 24/1738
- Barcode
- 241738.000
- Culture/People
- Winnebago [Nebraska]
- Collector
- Paul Logan, Winnebago [Nebraska]
- Previous owner
- Paul Logan, Winnebago [Nebraska]
- David T. Vernon (David Thomas Vernon/David C. Vernon), Non-Indian, 1900-1973
- Jackson Hole Preserve, Inc. (Jackson Hole Preserve, Incorporated), 1940-
- Object Type
- Indigenous Knowledge and Records
- Object Name
- Calendar stick
- Media/Materials
- Wood
- Techniques
- Incised
- Dimensions
- 52.5 x 3.1 x 1.8 cm
- Place
- Thurston, Winnebago Reservation; Thurston County; Nebraska; USA
- See related items
- Winnebago [Nebraska]
- Indigenous Knowledge and Records
- Record ID
- NMAI_257399
- Usage
- CC0
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