Pad saddle
date: label: Date created
content: circa 1895
name: label: Culture/People
content: probably Plains Cree (Prairie Cree) (attributed); owned and used by the Tsuu T'ina (Sarcee)
label: Previous owner
content: Jean Mary Isbister (Jean Mary Cowan/Mrs. Leonard George West/Mrs. Robert Clive Isbister), Non-Indian, 1912-1998
label: Previous owner
content: Constance Cowan (Mrs. Cecil M. Cowan/Constance Elizabeth Allport/Mrs. Cecil G. Cowan), Non-Indian, 1881-1963
label: Donor
content: Constance Cowan (Mrs. Cecil M. Cowan/Constance Elizabeth Allport/Mrs. Cecil G. Cowan), Non-Indian, 1881-1963
notes: label: Collection History
content: Given to Jean Mary Cowan (Mrs. Leonard West/Mrs. Robert Isbister, 1912-1998) in 1916 or 1917 by Tsuu T'ina (Sarcee) friends from a reserve near the ranch where she lived with her parents, Cecil M. Cowan and Constance Cowan (1881-1963); kept by the Cowan family until 1943, when it was donated to MAI by Mrs. Cowan.
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place: label: Place
content: Tsuu T'in Reserve (Sarcee Reserve); Alberta; Canada (inferred)
setName: label: See related items
content: Plains Cree (Prairie Cree)
label: See related items
content: Tsuu T'ina (Sarcee)
label: See related items
content: Animal Tack and Animal Husbandry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 20/6221
label: Barcode
content: 206221.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Animal Tack and Animal Husbandry
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Pad saddle
label: Media/Materials
content: Hide, wool cloth, glass bead/beads, deer hair, cotton cloth, silk ribbon, hide thong/babiche, metal buckle, sinew, thread, rawhide
label: Techniques
content: Sewn, overlay beadwork, stuffed
label: Dimensions
content: 46.00 x 42.00 x 5.00 cm