The Simms collection of Southwestern Chippewa material culture
By: James W. VanStone.
Series: Fieldiana -- new ser., no. 11; Publication -- 1387; Publication (Field Museum of Natural History) -- 1387.
Publisher: Field Museum of Natural History
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Simms, Stephen C. 1863-1937. -- Ethnological collections -- Catalogs.; Field Museum of Natural History -- Catalogs.; Indians of North America -- Minnesota -- Material culture -- Catalogs.; Ojibwa Indians -- Catalogs.
Description: The collections of Field Museum of Natural History contain 114 ethnographic objects collected in 1903 by Stephen C. Simms from the Southwestern Chippewa on the Leech Lake reservation in north-central Minnesota. These objects are described and illustrated. Information from previous studies of the Southwestern Chippewa, particularly those dealing with material culture, is included for comparative purposes.