Hide-Dressing Bones 4
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Dec 1904
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Hide dressing tool. Four pieces of porous bone. approx. 2.75" (7 cm). Records: Spongy part of thigh joint of a cow. Used for cleaning and smoothing surface of skin in dressing process. Buffalo and elk bones were formerly used. (C). (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
label: Notes
content: See: Mooney, James. "Skin and Skin Dressing." In Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, pp. 591-594. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 30, Part 2. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1910. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27846589 .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 043633
label: USNM Number
content: E233077-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hide Working Tool