Necklace Of Bear Claws
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Jan 1904
label: Collection Date
content: 1904
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs Matilda C. Stevenson
label: Donor Name
content: President Theodore Roosevelt
notes: label: Notes
content: IN A LETTER (IN THE REGISTRAR'S FILES)DATED JULY 8,1904 MATILDA COXE STEVENSON STATES" THE NECKLACE IS COMPOSED OF CLAWS FROM A BEAR WHICH NAIUCHI KILLED OVER FIFTY YEARS AGO, AND SINCE THAT TIME THE NECKLACE HAS BEEN WORN BY HIM IN THE CEREMONIES OF THE LITTLE FIRE FRATERNITY WHEN INVOKING POWER FROM THE BEAR TO DISCOVER DISEASE AND TO HEAL THE SICK" THE NECKLACE WAS PRESENTED TO PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSELVELT, THROUGH MRS STEVENSON, BY NAIUCHI, PRIEST OF THE BOW.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Dec 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Zuni, Zuni Reservation / Mckinley County, New Mexico, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Zuni (A:shiwi)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 042217
label: USNM Number
content: E229475-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace