Wooden Tablet. Ornamented
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1875
name: label: Donor Name
content: James H. Clark
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SMITHSONIAN ANNUAL REPORT 1930 KRIEGER ABORIGINAL DECORATIVE ART - PLATE 6. P. 556. THIS IS PROBABLY A TOBACCO CUTTING BOARD, BACK IS USED."
label: Notes
content: Board with circular projection at one end and four long rectangular projections at the other; elaborate incised designs on front, including small thunderbird, with red and dark blue pigments in incising; undercorated back of board shows many cut? marks, and also has a large splotch of red pigment. This object is similar in style to No. 182, p. 253, illustrated in Penney, David W., Richard A. Pohrt, Milford G. Chandler, and George P. Horse Capture. 1993. Art of the American Indian frontier: the Chandler-Pohrt collection; [publ. in conjunction with the Exhibition Art of the American Indian Frontier; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 24, 1992 - January 24, 1993 ... The Detroit Institute of Arts, October 15, 1993 - February 6, 1994]. Seattle [u.a.]: Univ. of Washington Pr.. The object in the publication is identified as Eastern Sioux (i.e. Dakota), possibly a feather box lid.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States / Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004159
label: USNM Number
content: E17535-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tablet