Mnemonic Pictograph On Birch Bark "Wikhegan"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Jan 1956
name: label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Incised drawing on outer surface of a birch bark square by the Passamaquoddy chief, Sapiel Selmo, who explained it as a hunting episode [See] (p. 347, 10th AR BAE [, in "Picture-Writing of the American Indians" by Garrick Mallery]. Illustrated, p. 348 (fig. 456)". Color slide neg. #94-9735 is overall shot of artifact. Color slide neg. #94-9734 is detail shot of incised section.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Jul 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Maine, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Passamaquoddy (Peskotomuhkati)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 208851
label: USNM Number
content: E393431-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Scroll