Skunk mandible necklace
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1868
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. U S Army Charles C. Gray
label: Collector
content: Dr. Washington Matthews
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. U S Army Charles C. Gray
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: THE ACCESSION FILE FOR E6326-361 NOTES ONLY THAT THE OBJECTS WERE SENT FROM FORT STEVENSON IN 1868. THE COLLECTORS, DRS. GRAY & MATHEWS, WERE POSTED TO THIS FORT IN 1867-68 (IN PRESENT-DAY NORTH DAKOTA), BUT PRIOR TO THAT, DR. MATHEWS HAD SERVED AT FORT BERTHOLD (WHICH LAY ONLY A FEW MILES FROM FORT STEVENSON), AS WELL AS AT FORT UNION FURTHER NORTH ON THE UPPER MISSOURI RIVER (ON THE MONTANA/NORTH DAKOTA BORDER). NEAR THERE, AT FORT BUFORD, DR. GRAY HAD BEEN POSTED IN 1867, AND IN 1866 SERVED AT FORT RANDALL (IN PRESENT-DAY SOUTHERN SOUTH DAKOTA). PRECISE PROVENIENCE IS THEREFORE UNCERTAIN FOR THESE OBJECTS; "FORT BERTHOLD," "FORT STEVENSON," "UPPER MISSOURI RIVER," OR SIMPLY "DAKOTA TERRITORY" INCONSISTENTLY APPEAR IN THE CARD CATALOG LISTINGS FOR THIS SERIES. AS ALL THE AFOREMENTIONED FORTS LAY ALONG THE UPPER MISSOURI RIVER, THAT DESIGNATION IS CHOSEN FOR LOCALITY. (CFS/1995).
label: Notes
content: FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "NECKLACE.-JAW-BONES OF SKUNK, MEPHITIS MEPHITICA, STRUNG ON A STRIP OF BUCKSKIN. MANDAN INDIANS. LENGTH, 16 INCHES. DAKOTA, 1867. 6334. COLLECTED BY DRS. MATTHEWS AND GRAY. WORN AS A MEDICINE OR CHARM TO PREVENT OR CURE SICKNESS."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Upper Missouri River, Dakota Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mandan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001281
label: USNM Number
content: E6334-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace