Firestarting steel with strap/tie
Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected from Kanta towin (Lakota) in 1913 or 1914 by ethnologist and ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore (1867-1957); purchased by MAI from Frances Densmore in 1917.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 6/7968
- Barcode
- 067968.000
- Culture/People
- Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)
- Previous owner
- Kanta towin (Kan tatonwin), Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)
- Collector
- Frances T. Densmore, Non-Indian, 1867-1957
- Seller
- Frances T. Densmore, Non-Indian, 1867-1957
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Object Name
- Firestarting steel with strap/tie
- Media/Materials
- Steel, rawhide
- Techniques
- Forged
- Place
- Standing Rock Reservation; Corson County; South Dakota; USA
- See related items
- Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Record ID
- NMAI_73261
