Turtle Shell Ornament
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1869
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. A. B. Campbell
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "NECK ORNAMENT, WAMNUHA. A SHELL OF THE "CHELYDRA SERPENTINA" (SNAPPING TURTLE) WITH ITS DRIED HEAD AND CLAWS ATTACHED TO THE SHELL BY STRIPS OF NATURAL SKIN. ATTACHED TO THE SHELL ARE SMALL BELLS AND CONICAL PENDANTS OF SHEET IRON, WITH A LONG STRIP OF THE RED STRIPE OF A BLANKET FASTENED TO THE SHELL TO SUSPEND IT FROM THE NECK. SEE 359,330. INVENTORIED 1978."
label: Notes
content: Listed in original AMM catalog as #54, An Indian neck ornament Brought by a trader from the Upper Yellowstone. The turtle is the chilyetra Serpentaria.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Yellowstone River, Upper, Montana, 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: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: E8354-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ornament