Carved Elk Teeth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Dec 1940
name: label: Collector
content: Miss Frances T. Densmore
label: Donor Name
content: Miss Frances T. Densmore
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Carved from bone. Collected about 1918. Said to have come from people farther to the west."
label: Notes
content: Formerly on exhibit in NHB Hall 9, case "Ornaments of Bird and Animal Materials." Exhibit label (presumably written by John C. Ewers?) identifies as: "Imitation elk teeth, carved of bone, and less valuable than real elk teeth, were also used for decorating women's dresses." Note: the original catalogue says there are six of these, but, as of 2005, there are 7 objects with this number. - F. Pickering 1-13-2005.
label: Notes
content: For her Sioux research, Frances Densmore primarily worked on the Standing Rock Reservation and the Lake Traverse Reservation, both of which are partly located in North Dakota and partly in South Dakota.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, North Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 158401
label: USNM Number
content: E381381-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ornament