Ornamented Pouch Made of Fisher Skin
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1869
name: label: Collector
content: Dr A. J. Comfort
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "A. Made from the skin of the fisher (mustella pennanti). The skin is drawn off from the animal whole, the skull being still left inclosed. The feet and tail are beautifully ornamented with porcupine quill work. "
label: Notes
content: The object being tracked with this number has several old tags with incorrect number 8363. In 1974, someone guessed that it was actually E8658A, and it does seem to match the description.
label: Notes
content: Listed in original AMM catalog as #358, Skins of three animals highly ornamented and converted into Tobacco pouches etc. (Lutra Canadensis)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Sisseton, Marshall County, South Dakota, 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: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: E8658A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag