Tatoo Instrument
notes: label: Description
content: Tatoo instrument collected by Townend Glover (1813-1883), an entomologist who, in 1854, was appointed to the Bureau of Agriculture of the U.S. Patent Office to collect statistics and other information on seeds, fruits, and insects. He remained in government service with one brief interruption until 1878.
label: Description
content: Ref: Townend Richard Dodge, The Life and Entomological Work of late Townend Glover, First Entomologist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (Washington, D.C., 1888).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: Africa
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.007323
label: catalog number
content: 007323
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tatooing Instrument
label: Object Name
content: instrument, tattooing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (tatooing needles material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (tweezers material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 8 1/4 in x 1 in; 1.5875 cm x 20.955 cm x 2.54 cm