Abscess Shield
notes: label: Description
content: Marcus A. Baker (1849-1903), a scientist who joined the U.S. Coast Survey in 1873, collected this abscess shield from Plover Bay, Siberia.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Death of Marcus A. Baker,” Washington Post (Dec. 13, 1903), p. 9.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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.046259
label: catalog number
content: 046259
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Abscess Shield
label: Object Name
content: abscess shield
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bone (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: skin (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 5 1/4 in x 3 5/8 in; 3.81 cm x 13.335 cm x 9.2075 cm