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Menominee Indian making tassword fiber string, Keshena, Wisconsin.
Menominee Indian making tassword fiber string, Keshena, Wisconsin.
Object Number 2004.29.5981
Display Title Menominee Indian making tassword fiber string, Keshena, Wisconsin.
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Menominee Indians (Algonquian) Menominee Indian making basswood fibre string. Keshena, Wis. A. Skinner, 1910."
Keywords
  • Manufacture and General Utility
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • String Making
Department Photographic
Date 1910
Artist Alanson Buck Skinner
Culture
  • Sauk
  • Fox
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Wisconsin
Additional Geographic Terms Great Lakes; Riverine region; Keshena
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 11.43 x 16.51 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)

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