Lanyard and Pick
date: label: associated date
content: 1861 - 1865
notes: label: Description
content: Physical Description
label: Description
content: Bone carving.
label: Description
content: General History
label: Description
content: Soldiers who were held prisoner faced enormous boredom. They would often find debris and use it to make objects to pass the time.
topic: label: Subject
content: POWs
label: related event
content: Civil War
label: related event
content: Civil War and Reconstruction
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
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content: Military
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content: ThinkFinity
label: Exhibition
content: Price of Freedom
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Catherine A. Kibler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.69076M
label: catalog number
content: 69076M
label: accession number
content: 261780
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lanyard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bone (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gutta percha (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 8 1/2 in x 1/4 in; 12.7 cm x 21.59 cm x .635 cm