Taiwanese food booth at the 2018 Festival of Nations sponsored by the International Institute and held in the St. Paul RiverCentre and Roy Wilkins Auditorium, May 3‒6, 2018. Food booth facades were designed between 1980 and 1987 by local set designer Jack Barkla. Photograph by Michael Silvan.
Tanned beaver hide marked "HA" on the flesh side with numerous discontinuous small holes to form the letters. "HA" are probably the initials of Harry Ayer. Date unknown but before 1959. Ayer was the original proprietor of the Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Trading Post in Onamia, Minnesota, in which this pelt was found. The object is probably Ojibwe in origin.