Raven Rattle
date: label: date made
content: ca 1860s
notes: label: Description
content: Alexander Henry Hoff (1822-1876) was a physician who served as a surgeon with the Union Army during the Civil War. In the late 1860s, having become a medical director of the Alaska territory recently acquired by the United States, he acquired this raven rattle used by native medicine men. An inscription painted on the side reads “9256 / ALASKA / AMM 454 / Dr. A. H. Hoff USA.” AMM here stands for Army Medical Museum.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Alaska
topic: label: Subject
content: Native Americans
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.009256
label: catalog number
content: 9256
label: accession number
content: 1767
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Raven Rattle
label: Object Name
content: rattle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 13 3/8 in x 4 3/4 in; 10.16 cm x 33.9725 cm x 12.065 cm