Brass Tube
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Jan 1877
name: label: Donor Name
content: J C. Nash
notes: label: Notes
content: Formerly (since sometime before 2003, until 2020) this record had locality VA / WV and Bland County (which is in WV but borders VA). I can find no trace of where this information came from. It is not on the card, ledger book, or accession record. The catalog card says Wood County and Parkersburg, which is on the border with Ohio. This could be where the object was found, or potentially where the donor (J. C. Nash) sent it from, or even a mistake, but in the absence of other documentation, it seems more likely than Bland County. The accession record says merely "from a mound in W. Va" (see transaction record 5732)
label: Notes
content: In the past, this number was mistakenly assigned to 3 brass pieces in the Musical Instrument Division. This explains the handwritten note on the card "part of French Horn or Trumpet?". Around 1902, the USNM Musical Instrument Division made a catalog card for them, (erroneously) assigning them to number 30183, and describing them as “Three crooks of brass tubing belonging to a horn used to change the key to B, A, or G.”, which were “Stored July 1902”. The 2016, the CA4119 physical inventory at NMAH located 3 horn crooks. These should be re-assigned to Found in Collections numbers, as the original accession information more closely matches the object found in Anthropology (Archaeology # A30183)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Parkersburg (not certain), Wood County (not certain), West Virginia, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Prehistoric
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005732
label: USNM Number
content: A30183-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tube