The Isaac Cowie collection of Plains Cree material culture from Central Alberta
By: James W. VanStone.
Contributors: Field Museum of Natural History.
Series: Fieldiana -- new ser., no. 17; Publication -- 1427; Publication (Field Museum of Natural History) -- 1427.
Publisher: Field Museum of Natural History
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Cowie, Isaac -- Ethnological collections -- Catalogs.; Field Museum of Natural History -- Catalogs.; Cree Indians -- Material culture -- Catalogs and collections.; Indians of North America -- Alberta -- Material culture -- Catalogs and collections.
Description: The collections of the Field Museum of Natural History contain 110 ethnographic objects collected among the Plains Cree of central Alberta in 1892 for the World's Columbian Exposition by Isaac Cowie, a retired Hudson's Bay Company trader living in Edmonton. The artifacts in this collection are described and illustrated. For comparative purposes, information is included from previous studies of the Plains Cree, notably those of Mandelbaum (1940, 1979).