Tomahawk/Axe
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
- Collector
- Dr. George Bird Grinnell, Non-Indian, 1849-1938
- Previous owner
- Dr. George Bird Grinnell, Non-Indian, 1849-1938
- Donor
- Dr. George Bird Grinnell, Non-Indian, 1849-1938
- Collection History
- Collected by anthropologist, naturalist, and author George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938) at an unknown date; donated to MAI by George Bird Grinnell in 1922.
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement
- Catalog Number
- 11/3144
- Barcode
- 113144.000
- Object Type
- Personal items
- Object Name
- Tomahawk/Axe
- Media/Materials
- Stone, hide, glass bead/beads
- Techniques
- Bead-wrapped
- Place
- Plains; USA, Canada (inferred)
- See related items
- Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
- Personal items
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_121507
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws67056c76b-7380-4c94-a361-12ed25070b82
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