Bead Collar
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Jan 1867
name: label: Donor Name
content: John Varden
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "OLD EXHIBIT LABEL READS: "NECKLACE. MADE OF LEATHER, SHAPED LIKE A HORSE-COLLAR, WITH THE EXTERIOR SERVED WITH STRINGS OF BLUE AND WHITE BEADS. PENDANT ARE STRINGS OF BEADS OF SAME COLORS. SIOUX INDIANS OF MISSOURI RIVER. L. 8 INS. BREADTH, 5 INS. DAKOTA 1855. JOHN VARDEN COLLECTON." REF: EWERS, JOHN C., INDIAN LIFE ON THE UPPER MISSOURI, 1968, PL. 14 & P. 94."
label: Notes
content: OBJECT IS ALSO ILLUS. IN PL. 33, P. 45 IN VIEWS OF A VANISHING FRONTIER BY JOHN C. EWERS, ET.AL., JOSLYN ART MUSEUM, 1984, WHERE IT IS IDENTIFIED AS A CHOKER NECKLACE. PL. 32, P. 44 OF SAME PUBLICATION ILLUSTRATES A KARL BODMER WATERCOLOR OF A MAN WEARING A SIMILAR CHOKER NECKLACE. A U.S. MILITARY BUTTON IS PART OF NECKLACE CLASP. FACE OF BUTTON HAS LOOPED HORN WITH DOUBLE ARC OF STARS ABOVE, WITH WORD "RIFLE" INSIDE HORN LOOP. SEE PP. 58-59 OF UNITED STATES MILITARY BUTTONS OF THE LAND SERVICES 1787-1902 BY MARTIN A. WYCKOFF, MCLEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, BLOOMINGTON, IL, 1984. THIS TYPE OF BUTTON WAS IN ACTIVE USE AMONG THE REGIMENT OF THE RIFLEMEN FROM 1815-1821. HOWEVER, IT APPEARS THE BUTTONS MAY HAVE CONTINUED IN USE BY THE MILITARY AFTER THAT.
label: Notes
content: A similar object is in the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. It is a Mandan style man's choker, # PM 99-12-10/53017. It was probably given to the Peale Museum by Lt. George Christianson Hutter in 1828.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Jun 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Missouri River, 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: 68A00002
label: USNM Number
content: E5419-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Choker
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 20 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 13 cm