Mesquakie (Fox) material culture
Subtitle: the William Jones and Frederick Starr collections
By: James W. VanStone.
Contributors: Field Museum of Natural History.
Series: Fieldiana -- new ser., no. 30; Publication -- 1492; Publication (Field Museum of Natural History) -- 1492.
Publisher: Field Museum of Natural History
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 89
Subjects: Fox Indians -- Material culture.; Indians of North America -- Iowa -- Material culture.; Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Material culture.; Indians of North America -- Wisconsin -- Material culture.
Description: The ethnographic collections of the Field Museum of Natural History contain assemblages of artifacts collected among the Mesquakie (Fox) Indians of Tama, Iowa, by William Jones in 1907 and by Frederick Starr prior to 1905. The artifacts in these collections are described and illustrated. Since there has been no previous comprehensive study of Mesquakie material culture and for comparative purposes, information is included from descriptions in ethnographies of neighboring woodland tribes, especially Skinner's (1921) study of Menominee material culture.