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Coverlet
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This coverlet was woven with red, dark blue and yellow colored wool and cotton yarns. Two mirror-image panels are stitched together at the long sides. There are five horizontal rows of large abstract daisy designs in the center of the coverlet, with side borders of thistle finches (distelfinks) and roses and a bottom border of a grapevine. The weaver's name and the date he w...
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.
Flail (harvesting)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This wooden flail was used during harvesting to thresh grain.
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 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...
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?])
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).
Map of Marquette and Jolliet Route
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Pierre Marquette and Louis Jolliet successfully located the Mississippi River and traveled down it in two birch bark canoes, accompanied by five voyageurs. On the return trip they chose the Illinois River and then the Des Plaines River, where it was easier to paddle upstream. From the Des Plaines River it was a short portage to Lake Michigan.
Yoked Oxen, G.P. Davis Farm
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The oxen in this photograph were used to farm the prairie on the G.P. Davis Farm, McLean County, Illinois.
Jack wagon
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Carved wooden wagon jack. Painted red. Forged base with two pronged feet and a plate on the side with a cogwheel and a twisted-shank handle. Forged bar inside the jack raises and lowers on the cog wheel mechanism. U shaped bracket swivels on top of the bar. "1855" is scribed on the top bar of the jack.
Cone, Sugar
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Large cone of solid sugar. Wrapped in blue paper and tied with a twisted cord. 10.25" high.
Cutter, Sugar
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sugar cutter made from iron with a wooden handle. Made by AK and Sons.
Cradle or 'turkey wing' scythe
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The cradle, or "turkey wing", was used during harvest to cut grain.
Isaac and Cassandra Funk
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Isaac and Cassandra Funk were important early settlers of McLean County.
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 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.
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.
Coverlet
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)a stylized feather design extends above and below each element. The side and bottom borders contain "weeping" tulips. The weaver's name and work location are woven in each lower corner. The sides and bottom edges are fringed. Total size is 96-1/2" x 71-1/2".
Coverlet
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This coverlet of olive green, red, gold and undyed wool yarn is woven into a geometric sunburst pattern with inset sunflowers and dogwood blossoms. The side borders are a grapevine pattern and the lower border contains a tulip tree alternating with a maple tree. Fringe survives on the side and bottom edges. Total size is 89-3/8" x 73-1/2".
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".
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
Lamp, Kerosene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Tin down-draft Argand Kerosene Lamp. Has a tall cylindrical chimney that is attached to a cup-shaped font by a 2.125" projection which has been soldered on. At the top of the font is a flat slot with a wick stem in the center. Surrounding this stem is a multi-petal ridge with many holes. The lamp is fixed to the base like an inverted dish. On the underside there are three so...
Lamp, Oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Tin whale oil miner's lamp. Small cylindrical shaped whale oil lamp with a removable cap and a wick tube in the center. The bottom of the lamp has a sharp "v" shaped point which has been soldered on to the base for sticking the lamp into posts or beams. There is a small air vent beside the wick tube on the cap.
Candlestick
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Tin hog-scraper style candlestick. Has a round concave base with a tin cylinder protruding upwards from the center and a flattened lip with a short flat handle. 5" high. Candle drippings cover the entire base and cylinder. The height adjustment lever on the stand is missing.
Bedkey and Folding Bed
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Bedkey and folding rope bed
Coverlet
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A large sunburst is positioned in the center of the coverlet on a lush field surrounded by a series of geometric and floral borders. All four sides have a wide floral border. Red, blue, green and undyed yarns were used.

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