Shoulder Bag - Octopus Bag
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1854
label: Collection Date
content: 1846
name: label: Collector
content: S. Taylor
label: Donor Name
content: G. Y. Taylor
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: " From The House Of Gen. Ampudea In Monterey, Mexico. Flat rectangular leather bag; front covered with brown velvet and multi-colored floral beadwork designs. Beading in bad condition; in many places paper pattern shows under remaining beads. Six wide cloth strips (covered in brown velvet, bound by red cotton and beaded in blue and white linear design) form fringe at base of pouch. Wide leather belt forms carrying strap. In 1974 old museum tag found with specimen, reading (in an early 19th century hand) "pouch found by M. K. Taylor in the house of Ampudea Sept. 23rd 1846 deposited by S. G. Taylor 1854" (the second initial of the finder written over..perhaps T or R. The 1867 entry in the original catalog book reads "pouch from the house of Gen Ampudia Monterey Mexico" received from "MK Taylor", collected by "S K Taylor" (but the tag certainly does not read "S K Taylor", although "S Y Taylor" is a possibility) the original typed card read "Gen. Ampridia", by simply misreading of the *original catalog book. Specimen identified in 1974 by William C. Sturtevant and John C. Ewers as probably Eastern Woodland, North American Indian. Tribal identificiation not yet possible."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Monterey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Northeast Indian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 316035
label: USNM Number
content: E4788-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag