Necklace
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1983
name: label: Collector
content: Ms. E. B. Kavasch
label: Donor Name
content: Sites Native Harvests
notes: label: Notes
content: NECKLACE OF CORAL BEANS AND FACETED GREEN IRIDESCENT PLASTIC BEADS STRUNG ON RED COTTON THREAD. BEAD PATTERN IS ONE CORAL BEAN, ONE PLASTIC BEAD, ONE CORAL BEAN, FOUR PLASTIC BEADS, REPEAT. BEANS COME FROM CORAL BEAN TREE, NATIVE TO SOUTHEAST U.S.A., SCIENTIFIC NAME ERYTHRINA HERBACEA AND ARE ALSO CALLED CHEROKEE BEANS. BEANS ARE HALLUCINOGENIC AND POISONOUS, IF SWALLOWED. MADE BY CLAUDE MEDFORD, JR. CHOCTAW, 132 1/2 BEHAN STREET, NATCHITOCHES, LA 71457. COLLECTED BY MS. E. BARRIE KAVASCH IN 1983 AND DONATED TO SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERVICE (SITES) FOR NATIVE HARVEST EXHIBIT. CATALOG NUMBERS E430157-E430167 MADE BY SAME ARTIST.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Natchitoches, 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: 378691
label: USNM Number
content: E430166-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 74 cm