Carving
Dakota:
opaġoOjibwe:
mookodaaso (carve)Rectangular paperweight (est.) featuring a relief carving of a Latin cross.
Dimensions:
height: 6 1/8 inches
width: 4 1/8 inches
thickness: 1 1/4 inches
Creation Location:
Minnesota, United States
Created Date:
Approximately 1860 to Approximately 1901
Source:
Gift of the Sibley House Association of the Minnesota Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Housed at:
Minnesota Historical Society
Catalog Number:
1787
Cultural Association:
Dakota Indians
Curatorial Notes:
This may be the same paperweight shown in the MHS photograph of Whipple's library. The paperweight is shown on the table in the lower right corner of the image. See: Bishop Whipple's library, Photographer: Frank Jay Haynes, Photograph Collection ca. 1900, Location no. Collection III.40.269. The paperweight in the photograph may also be objects 1536.A,B, 1789, or X.1.462.
Related Object Types:
Carvings 
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