Horse Tail
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 May 1892
label: Collection Date
content: 1872
name: label: Collector
content: Brig. Gen. William B. Hazen
label: Collector
content: William Courtenay
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Mildred M. Hazen
notes: label: Notes
content: IDENTIFIED AS HORSE, NOT HUMAN, BY DR. DOUGLAS OWSLEY 11-28-2001
label: Notes
content: Culture identification changed from Sioux to Hidatsa, Arikara, or Mandan by Candace Greene May 2017 based on a full review of the collecting history and consideration of general stylistic traits.
label: Notes
content: See p. 145 in United States National Museum Bulletin No. 14, "Catalogue of the Collection to Illustrate the Animal Resources and the Fisheries of the United States, exhibited at Philadelphia in 1876 by the Smithsonian Institution and the United States Fish Commission, and forming a part of the United States National Museum", in Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Vol. 23, https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/catalogueofcolle00unit . This object is identified as "Horse tail. - Mounted on a wooden hoop, imitating the shape of a human scalp, suspended by a loop of red flannel."
label: Notes
content: Results of 2013 analysis of hair from this object identifies it as horse (not human.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Apr 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Buford, Williams County, Dakota Territory / North Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hidatsa (?)
label: Culture
content: Arikara (Sahnish) (?)
label: Culture
content: Mandan (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025748
label: USNM Number
content: E153954-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Horse Tail