Blowgun
name: label: Culture/People
content: Warao
label: Possible collector
content: Eliza Haldeman Figyelmesy (Eliza J. Haldeman/Mrs. Philip Figyelmesy), Non-Indian, 1843-1910
label: Previous owner
content: Samuel Steman Haldeman (S.S. Haldeman), Non-Indian, 1812-1880
label: Lender
content: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University)
notes: label: Collection History
content: Possibly collected between 1870 and 1880 by Eliza Haldeman Figyelmesy (1843-1910, wife of Colonel Philip Figyelmesy, U.S. consul to British Guiana) and sent to her father, Samuel Steman Haldeman (1812-1880, a professor of natural history at the University of Pennsylvania); donated to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Professor Haldeman or his family; lent to MAI by the Academy of Natural Sciences in 1929.
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Guyana
setName: label: See related items
content: Warao
label: See related items
content: Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 16/7013
label: Barcode
content: 167013.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Blowgun
label: Media/Materials
content: Wood, animal tooth/teeth, cordage
label: Techniques
content: Carved