"Made Beaver" Pelt
date: label: date made
content: mid 1800s
notes: label: Description
content: In the mid-1800s, after being cleaned and stretched, beaver skins were transformed into beaver pelts such as this one. Dark brown in color, this beaver pelt is rather large, being almost two feet in diameter. Prized for their water-repellent fur, pelts traded at a premium. In the early 1800s, “Made Beaver” was a unit of trade; 12 pelts purchased a four-foot gun; one, a one-pound kettle.
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Coins, Currency and Medals
label: Exhibition
content: Value of Money
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Chase Manhattan Bank
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.1263.00759
label: accession number
content: 1979.1263
label: catalog number
content: 79.112.OC81
label: collector/donor number
content: OC81
objectType: label: Object Name
content: alternative currency
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather, fur (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 23 in x 8 in; 10.16 cm x 58.42 cm x 20.32 cm