Doctor's Wand
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Oct 1908
label: Collection Date
content: 1908
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Ales F. Hrdlicka
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Ales F. Hrdlicka
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: WHILE NOT CONFIRMED BY THE ACCESSION RECORD, THE PROVENIENCE OF THIS OBJECT, COLLECTED BY DR. HRDLICKA IN THE SUMMER OF 1908 DURING HIS FIELDWORK FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON TUBUERCULOSIS, IS VERY LIKELY PINE RIDGE RESERVATION, AS ALL OTHER OGLALA SIOUX ARTIFACTS COLLECTED BY HIM DURING THAT TRIP WERE MARKED AS FROM THAT SITE.
label: Notes
content: From card: "The upper mandible of (large bird?) to which a bundle of feathers is attached. Used as a "shooter" by the medicine man to drive away disease."
label: Notes
content: Identified by Allen Chronister as amulet, cormorant bill and feathers.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Oct 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Pine Ridge Reservation / Shannon County, South Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Oglala Lakota
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 049349
label: USNM Number
content: E253057-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wand