Letter
name: label: Creator
content: Steinen, Karl von den, 1855-1929
label: Collection Creator
content: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology
label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Department of Anthropology
label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology
topic: label: Topic
content: Shell tools -- Payagua (Paraguay)
label: Topic
content: Shell tools -- Xingu
label: Topic
content: Shell tools -- Bororo
creator: label: Creator
content: Steinen, Karl von den, 1855-1929
culture: label: Culture
content: Bororo -- Shell tools
label: Culture
content: Payagua (Paraguay) -- Shell tools
label: Culture
content: Xingu -- Shell tools
setName: label: See more items in
content: Department of Anthropology records
label: See more items in
content: Department of Anthropology records / Series 17: Division of Ethnology / 17.1: Manuscript and Pamphlet File / Ceramics—American Indian
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: October 22, 1895
container: label: Container
content: Box 8a, Folder 121
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Letters
label: Type
content: Drawings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Letters
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Concerns the use of shells as scrapers. Attached are three drawings of shell tools from the Paraguay and the Mato Grosso in Brazil (Xingu, Bororo, and Payagua.