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Material Culture and the Arts

For Native people in the Great Lakes area, finding sufficient food was sometimes a challenge.

They structured their seasonal round of movements and forays to different areas to take advantage of rice, nuts, berries and other foods which were plentiful as well as travelling to good fishing spots and areas where game was plentiful.

Transportation

With the exception of dogs, Native people in the Great Lakes region had no domesticated animals, so they depended on their own power for transportation.

Walking was the most common way of moving, and personal possessions were limited largely to what the people could carry themselves.

Catalog Number : A 15041
Accession Number : 3884

Charred wood, fragment of plank or rafter

Catalog Number : A 10153
Textile
Catalog Number : 55477
Accession Number : 17163
Accession Date : 9/13/1951
Tribe : Potawatomi - Forest County, Wisconsin
Region : Northeast
Material : wood, leather, cotton textile, iron nails
Source : Robert Ritzenthaler - MPM Curator of Anthropology (1943-1972)