Skull-Cracker
date: label: Accession Date
content: 11 Jun 1909
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. Charles B. Thompson
label: Collector
content: Gen. Rufus B. Saxton
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Matilda G. Saxton
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Wooden rod rests against long edge stone & held to it by raw-hide (buffalo) being sewed around it and passing around bottom of stone (see attached card for use) At handle end is a loop, to which originally was suspended a bunch of hair (buffalo, horse, etc.) which might be used to wipe blood from hands. This instrument was given to Capt. C. B. Thompson, U.S.A. by a Sioux ... [woman]. It is called a skull-cracker, and was used in numerous wars. After a battle, it was the custom of the Sioux women to search the field, and if an enemy were found in whom life was not extinct, to crack his skull."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Oct 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains (Northern), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 050200
label: USNM Number
content: E255330-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Club