Snake Skin God
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Aug 1898
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Peter Jones
label: Collector
content: Dr. Peter E. Jones
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SNAKE-SKIN. SKIN OF BLACK SNAKE WITH HEAD PRESERVED INTACT, COILED AROUND THE FOLDED SKIN OF A WEASEL." LISTED AS "SNAKE SKIN GOD" IN PLATE OPPOSITE PAGE 145 IN HISTORY OF THE OJEBWAY INDIANS, BY REV. PETER JONES, LONDON, 1861. - STEVEN L. GRAFE 1997 SEE ACCESSION HISTORY AND PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. Circa 2007, a label is with the artifact identifying the snake as the black rat snake, Elaphe obsoleta.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ontario, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe), Mississauga
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 033939
label: USNM Number
content: E178383-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Medicine Object