Bear-Claw Necklace
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: Identified as Osage? by John C. Ewers, 1978. "#71, probably orig. no. in black ink. Strips of otter fur wrapped around a core of red strouding. Bear claws, with spacers of faceted white glass beads and bone (?) tubes, around 3/4 of circumference of necklace. Pendant of a white shell disc; in its center a circle of beaded skin: design of a star in a circle in blue, purple, yellow, and green glass beads. Shell pendant is probably not native manuf. Probably made in Bergen County, New Jersey for Indian trade. They were made there in both factories and as a "home industry." - J.C. Ewers."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Osage (Wazhazhe) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET1768A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 52 cm