Tanned Goatskin
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Nov 1917
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mr. David I. Bushnell Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Indian tanned goatskin, very white and rather soft. See Bull. B.A.E. [#48]" Reference: Bushnell, David I. 1909. The Choctaw of Bayou Lacomb, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. Washington: Govt. Print. Off. (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 48.) The process of Choctaw hide tanning is described (p. 11-12) and illustrated (Pl. 11 and 12 after p. 55) in this publication.
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 notes that the hide is almost uniform in color. Albert posits that it may have been bleached.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Bayou Lacombe / Saint Tammany Parish, 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: 061814
label: USNM Number
content: E300891-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hide