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Object Number
88-51-10/50690
Display Title
Pemmican maul
Descriptions
Object Description
Pemmican maul
Inventory Description
Maul, leather covered rock head, short handle, looped end
Classification
- Food processing
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Sioux
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
Additional Geographic Terms
Dakota
Materials
Leather, Stone, Wood
Dimensions
Overall: 34 x 10.2 x 5.3 cm (13 3/8 x 4 x 2 1/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
50690, 73835 (crossed out), 76,835 (crossed out) / Sioux, DAK. / GOV. R. W. Turn
Provenance
Provenance
Smithsonian Institution
(1888)
Collector
Gov. R. W. Furness
(1884)
Exchange participant
Smithsonian Institution
(1888)
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