Blowgun And Darts (1 Set)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Oct 1918
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mr. David I. Bushnell Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Tube of cane showing long use and wear. Darts a slender strip of cane having a wrapping of ravelled cloth at base. Use by men in killing birds. 03-10-1987 Blowgun and 1 dart lent to Mississippi State Historical Museum, loan returned Jan 14 1988." Bushnell discusses Choctaw blowguns on p. 18, and illustrates one in Plate 20, of Bushnell, David I. 1909. The Choctaw of Bayou Lacomb, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. Washington: Govt. Print. Off. (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 48.) He says they were used for hunting squirrels, rabbits, and various birds.
label: Notes
content: Albert Naquin, Traditional Chief; Boyo Billiot, Deputy Chief; Chantel Comardelle, Tribal Secretary; and Heather Stone, collaborator; made the following comments during the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, October 23-27, 2017. Heather asks the group to explain the materials used on the end of the darts. It is cotton and not feathers. Boyo and Albert explain that feathers wouldn't seal up the blowgun whole to be able to push out the dart. Cotton used to be grown on Isle de Jean Charles.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Louisiana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Choctaw
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 062828
label: USNM Number
content: E304038-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blowgun / Dart