Gecko Skin Amulet
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1869
name: label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM LOGBOOK: GECKO SKIN ON STICK. ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM NUMBER 7536.
label: Notes
content: The object itself is marked "7536 ? China A.M.M.". An old Smithsonian tag with the object is marked: "7536 (AMM) Amulet of dried skin of lizard not China probably Arizona." Someone has subsequently crossed out the words "probably Arizona" on the tag and written "NO". A more recent Smithsonian ring tag with the object is marked "7536 not museum cat. no.; lizard identified as gecko native to Far East." Army Medical Museum ledger book for Section 6, has an entry under # 549 which may refer to this object. It is identified as "Chinese medicine lizard used for external application", and the ledger indicates a "sample" was sent to the Smithsonian. The Army Medical Museum further notes that they received a group of Chinese medicines (logged under #s 530 - 571), and identifies them this way: "Chinese medicine supposed to have been seized at the Custom House, San Francisco Cal. Some of the Chinese physicians were interviewed to disclose their nature and properties but declined to give any information concerning them. Rec. from San Francisco March 23, 1871". This T number has been listed under Army Medical Museum accession # 416140 to facilitate research.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 May 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: China (not certain), Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: ET8867-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Amulet