Items | Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

Native American Cradle Board
Multi-Page Item | 5 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Baby cradle board made of pine wood. Curved wood at the top is attached in three places with leather strips. One end is square, the other is scalloped with 6 scallops. Carvings on both sides of scalloped edge of beavers and letters/words?. The underside has a carving of a man with a bow and wavy vertical lines. There are holes in each of the scallops. The handle has diagonal...
Madison' Projectile Points
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Four small to medium-sized thin triangular arrowheads. The points are usually like isosceles triangles in shape, or more rarely, equilateral triangles.
Gun Lock Plate
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This gun lock plate is made of iron. It was a trade item - white settlers traded the gun plate to the Kickapoo.
A Kickapoo Vocabulary; compiled by Milo Custer
Multi-Page Item | 5 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is a 5-page document, "A Kickapoo Vocabulary
Native American Spider Gorget
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Round marine shells with spider designs carved onto them. The shells are about 3" in diameter.
Meskawki Lodge
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Traditional house form utilized by Woodland Indians of the Great Lakes Region. Meskwaki settlement near Tama, Iowa. 1905.
Kickapoo Words for the Corn Plant
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Kickapoo used various words in the diagram to identify parts of the corn plant.
Scissors
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)These iron scissors were manufactured by white settlers and traded with the Kickapoo.
18372--Illinois River and Valley from Starved Rock, New State Park, Ill.
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white stereograph slide showing the Illinois River.
Native American Moccasins (pair)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)they are stitched entirely by hand. The uppers are decorated with white, red and blue beads sewn on in geometric patterns. Leather ties around the ankles secured the moccasins.
Native American Doll
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This girl doll is made of buckskin. She is dressed in a tan buckskin dress with fringe at the sides, bottom and sleeves. The dress is decorated with lines of white beads sewn just above the bottom fringe, and lines of red and white beads around the waist, at the neck line, down the tops of the sleeves and at the sleeve openings. There is a leather belt at the waist. The moca...
Native American Bandolier Bag
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A bandolier bag is a large pouch with a long continuous strap. This one is made of deerskin. The panel between the strap and pouch is covered with black velvet. Along the bottom edge are wool yarn tassels and loops of beads. The entire bag is covered with beaded decoration in bold floral and foliate designs. The flowers on the pouch are worked in red and blue flowers with gr...
Atlas of Historic Tribes in Illinois: 1673-1832
Multi-Page Item | 3 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Key to map of historic tribes in Illinois 1673-1832. It should be noted that the maps shown here are greatly simplified.
Kickapoo Bark Hut (Dwelling)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Image of two bark winter huts built on the Kickapoo Reservation in Brown County, Kansas. People are possibly residents. Reverse side states, "Bark House of Andrew Magozee a [illegible] whose wife is Ahtseh, a Kickapoo, situated on the Kickapoo [illegible] Brown County, Kansas (looking w[est?])
Prayer Stick
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This prayer stick was used by the "Praying Kickapoo" in the 1830's. It is carved with symbolic characters.
Local Indian Traditions
Multi-Page Item | 7 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Milo Custer's 1914 account of local indian traditions (7 pages).
Carved Bone Hand
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This carved bone hand was used in glove-making. Glove-making was one of the early cottage industries of pioneer Illinois.
Kickapoo Wahkwahpoakuk
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Wahkwahpoakuk was a Kickapoo Indian who lived on the Kickapoo reservation in Kansas. He was photographed by Milo Custer who visited there between 1906 and 1911.
Gun Cock
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This iron gun cock was obtained by the Kickapoo from white traders.
Eliot Indian Bible
Multi-Page Item | 5 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Holy Bible: containing the Old Testament and the New translated into the Indian Language and ordered to be printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies in New England, for the propogation of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New England. Purchased by Library Friends as the 5 millionth volume. ...
Archaeologists at Noble-Wieting, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Illinois State University students study the remains at the Noble-Wieting archaeological site in 1972, a former Indian mound in McLean County. The site is in Heyworth, Illinois.
Native American Wedding Belt
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)the edges are trimmed with green silk. The front is decorated with tiny glass beads of many colors sewn on in an abstract floral pattern. Long, narrow tapes woven of red wool and ending in red wool yarn tassels serve to fasten the belt around the wearer's waist.
Recovered Indian Corn Fragments
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Fragments of corn recovered from the Grand Village of the Kickapoo in 1972.
Iron Hoe
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This iron hoe was used by the Kickapoo in the cultivation of food.
The Coureur de Bois and the Indian
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A fur trader stands by a birch bark canoe and shakes the hand of an Indian. A second fur trader is seated in the canoe.
Native American Spider Gorget
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Round marine shells with spider designs carved onto them. The shells are about 3" in diameter.
Native American Water Basket
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A basket woven in an ovoid shape with rounded bottom, flaring sharply from neck to a wide opening at the top. There are two wide leather strap handles attached at the widest part of the body, positioned at 4:30 and 7:30. The entire body of the basket had a thick coating applied to make it waterproof. Height of basket is 13-1/2".
Diorama of Mississippian Culture
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)In this picture of a diorama at the Illinois State Museum in Springfield, Illinois, two Indians, one male and one female, gather corn for food. The male wears a decoration around his neck and a small cloth around his waist. The female wears only a skirt around her waist. Corn grows nearby. It illustrates early Mississippian culture.
Iron Arrow Point
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The iron point was a trade item obtained from white traders.
Knife Blade
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This knife blade was a common tool used by the Kickapoo. It was made of iron.
Kickapoo Bear Chief (Mkopahmah)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Bear Chief (Mkopahmah) was a Kickapoo Indian living on the Kickapoo reservation in Kansas. He was photographed by Milo Custer, who visited there in 1906 and 1911.
Illinois-Wabash Land Company manuscript
Multi-Page Item | 3 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Several pages from a manuscript book that was used as a contract with Indians for land in Illinois. "A manuscript book, being a contract with Indians for land in the Illinois." "This manuscript ... is evidently one of several copies made for the various members of the Company at the time when the two companies, the Illinois Land Company, and the Wabash Land Compa...
Meskawki Lodge, Reproduction
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Free-lanced design, based on a study of Meskawki lodges
Kickapoo Dwelling (Bark Hut)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)After leaving McLean County, the Kickapoo fled westward. This dwelling was photographed in Brown County, Kansas, about 1906.
Kickapoo Band
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Members of the Kickapoo Band are seated with instruments. The band was at Kickapoo School, Brown County, Kansas.
Silver Cross
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This silver cross was obtained by the Kickapoo from white traders.
Trade Axe
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This trade axe was manufactured by white settlers and traded to the Kickapoo.
Women of Kickapoo Nation
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Photograph of three women in the Kickapoo tribe, taken at the Kickapoo reservation in Kansas to document McLean County, Illinois, Kickapoo descendants. Names identifying the three women featured in the photograph on the reverse side, stating, "Mrs. Anderson (Kickapoo), Nubya, daughter of Mashewa, Kawkeas, grandaughter . . . (Text cut off on right side). (The Illustrated His...
Kickapoo Grand Village Monument
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A historical marker was placed at the site of the Grand Village of the Kickapoo in Ellsworth, Illinois, by the McLean County Historical Society in 1905.

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