Rawhide Playing-Cards 2
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Sep 1898
name: label: Collector
content: Emile Granier
label: Donor Name
content: Emile Granier
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "OF SPANISH ORIGIN." According to Alan Ferg, Arizona State Museum, 9-30-2005, the two playing cards that make up Cat. #200560 are almost certainly from a deck that was, at some point in history, broken up, with four of the cards ending up in the American Museum of Natural History (their cat. no. T-22,999) and 31 cards ending up in the Chicago Historical Society (their cat. no. 1920.1675). The two cards in Cat. # 200560 consist of a Sota (jack, knave, or page) of Coins, and a Two of Cups. Ferg also indicates that the collection history and style for the Cat. #200560 cards strongly suggest that they, along with a handful of other packs in other museums, were all painted by a Tonto Apache artist. Note re photos: 4 color digitals were shot by Smithsonian Photographic Services of the face side of the two cards together: Neg. #2005-32892 is on bright red background; Neg. #2005-32893 is on darker red background; Neg. # 2005-32894 is on beige background; Neg. #2005-32895 is on brown background. This object is illustrated and described on pp. 162-163 of Wayland, Virginia, Harold Wayland, and Alan Ferg. 2006; Playing cards of the Apaches: a study in cultural adaptation; Tucson, Ariz: Screenfold Press. The book discusses the collection history of the various cards in detail. The records for the cards in the American Museum of Natural History identify them as made by someone from the "Tonto Delachaise" (presumably Delshay) band of Apache Indians, and also says "Capt. Charles F. Bendire and J. J. McIlvain, 1878, Arizona," which are presumably the collectors' names and the collection date.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Apache
label: Culture
content: Apache, Tonto (Dilzhe'e) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 034005
label: USNM Number
content: E200560-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Card