Bowl
Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected in 1911 by William C. Orchard (1860-1948, an employee of the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and later at MAI) during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye and the University Museum.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- circa 1870
- Catalog Number
- 2/9016
- Barcode
- 029016.000
- Culture/People
- Dakota (Eastern Sioux)
- Collector
- William C. Orchard, Non-Indian, 1860-1948
- Expedition sponsor
- George Gustav Heye (GGH), Non-Indian, 1874-1957
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (The University Museum/Penn Museum)
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Bowl
- Media/Materials
- Wood, brass tacks/bosses
- Techniques
- Carved, studded
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 35.5 x 13 cm
- Place
- Crow Creek, Crow Creek Sioux Reservation; Buffalo County; South Dakota; USA
- See related items
- Dakota (Eastern Sioux)
- Containers and Vessels
- On View
- NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, Plains & Plateau
- Record ID
- NMAI_31011
- Usage
- CC0
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