Blowgun And 3 Darts
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1886
name: label: Collector
content: C. E. Whitney
label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: This should probably have only 4 parts (blowgun plus 3 darts), but 7 are found in the collection: 3 blowdarts, 2 longer tubes (blowguns), and two shorter tubes. The 4 tubes all have numbers marked on them, in different ink/handwriting, some of which has clearly been "refreshed." One of the longer tubes has very faint writing "Cherokees N. Ga. Bourke" which may be a clue that it originally had a different number. However, they will keep this number for tracking purposes unless/until the original number can be found.
label: Notes
content: Albert Naquin, Traditional Chief; Boyo Billiot, Deputy Chief; Chantel Comardelle, Tribal Secretary; and Heather Stone, collaborator; made the following comments during the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, October 23-27, 2017. Boyo notes that on the Island blow guns were made with a different material, wood instead of cane. Albert notes that the longer the gun was, the straighter it shot. Heather asks the group to explain the materials used on the end of the darts. It is cotton and not feathers. Boyo and Albert explain that feathers wouldn't seal up the blowgun whole to be able to push out the dart. Cotton used to be grown on Isle de Jean Charles.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 7
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Louisiana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chitimacha
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E76808-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blowgun / Dart