Vase Of Birch And Porcupine Quills
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Jan 1867
name: label: Donor Name
content: John Varden
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Written on the specimen: Mackanaw, which would mean, Michigan, probably Chippewa."
label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: CARD STATES, "WRITTEN ON THE SPECIMEN: MACKANAW, WHICH WOULD MEAN, MICHIGAN, PROBABLY CHIPPEWA." THERE WAS AN OLD TRADING POST IN MICHIGAN, ON THE STRAITS OF MACKINAC, CALLED "MACKINAW."
label: Notes
content: There is ink writing on the bottom of the object, but parts of it are extremely difficult to decipher; this is the best guess at what it may say: "For Arom, Mackanaw, of the Attawa [?], Indian [woman]."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mackinaw (not certain), Michigan / Ontario, United States / Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe) (?)
label: Culture
content: Ottawa (Odawa, Nishnaabe) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 68A00002
label: USNM Number
content: E5439-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Container