Medicine Man's Rattle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Stephen Powers
label: Donor Name
content: Stephen Powers
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THE BODY IS FORMED OF TWO CONCAVE DISK OF RAW HIDE. LIKE AN OLD STYE WATCH CRYSTAL. THEY ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER AND STITCHED. A HOLE IS MADE IN THE CENTER OF EACH DISK AND A TAPERING STICK DRIVEN IN. THE DOUBLE CONVEX CAVITY OF THE BODY CONTAINS BLUE OR GREEN GLASS BEADS." THERE IS CONFUSION IN THE RECORDS AS TO THE CULTURAL IDENTIFICATION OF THIS PIECE. ACCESSION RECORD CALLS THIS PAIUTE, WALKER LAKE, NEVADA. LEDGER BOOK HAS NO TRIBE OR LOCALITY LISTED. CATALOGUE CARD CALLS IT HOOPAH OR HUPA MCCLOUD RIVER INDIANS (I.E. WINTU), SHASTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. POWERS COLLECTED FROM BOTH THE HUPA AND THE WALKER LAKE PAIUTE. HE DID NOT COLLECT MUCH FROM THE WINTU, AND IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE MCCLOUD RIVER INDIAN I.D. WAS MISTAKENLY COPIED FROM 19614, WHICH IS THE LAST ENTRY IN THE LEDGER BOOK BEFORE 19616 TO HAVE TRIBE OR LOCALITY LISTED. - F. PICKERING 3-15-2001
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Apr 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given / Walker Lake (not certain), Mcloud River (not certain) / Mineral County (not certain), California (not certain) / Nevada (not certain), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hupa (?)
label: Culture
content: Paiute (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004856
label: USNM Number
content: E19616-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rattle