Under Bed
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 Sep 1898
label: Collection Date
content: 1897 to 1898
name: label: Collector
content: John B. Hatcher
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "GUANACO SKIN, PAINTED WITH RED BACKGROUND, BLUE AND YELLOW STRIPES, PARTIALLY EDGED WITH CHECKER DESIGN IN SAME COLORS."
label: Notes
content: Catalogue card identifies E178419 as guanaco, however Anthropology catalogue ledger book called 178419 painted horse hide. There is a painted horse (?) hide robe that fits this description, which has now been called E178419-0. This guanaco robe is now listed as E178419-1. It is unclear if the number is correct for the guanaco robe, but given the description on the catalogue card, this guanaco robe has been numbered E178419 for many years, so it has been kept as this number for now. It is also possible it was originally one of the saddle E178409 accessories? (this would be an easy number error to make), or the cradle E178406A accessories? In any case, is possible/probable that it was used in the old Tehuelche mannequin group case, "Family Group of the Tehuelche Indians"? Various versions of this group were on display for a number of years, including finally in NMNH Exhibit Hall 11, Case 53, and the majority, if not all of the artifacts in the case/on the mannequins came from the John Bell Hatcher collections. You can see a photo of one version online: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 12-492, Image No. SIA2012-2807, https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_367782 .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 May 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Patagonia, Argentina, South America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tehuelche (Aónikenk)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 033958
label: USNM Number
content: E178419-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Robe