Bear Claw Necklace
date: label: Accession Date
content: 31 Dec 1867
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department Of War
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: ORIGINALLY CALLED "BELT OF BEAR'S CLAWS". OLD [19th or early 20th century exhibit] LABEL: "BELT.-MADE OF MUSKRAT AND OTTER FUR WITH NUMEROUS BEAR CLAWS FASTENED UPON IT AT INTERVALS OF ABOUT AN INCH. THE CLAWS ARE CONNECTED BY A STRING OF BLUE BEADS EXTENDING THROUGH A HOLE IN THE CENTER OF EACH CLAW. DESCRIBED IN AMERICAN INDIAN TRADITION, VOL. 8, NO. 1, 1961, P. 11. LOANED TO AMER. UNIV. 3/23/1970. RETURNED: MAY 11, 1970. LOANED TO THE GRAPHIC ARTS DIV., MHT. 3/2/1977. RETURNED 9-21-77."
label: Notes
content: Entered in the orginal ledger catalog as from the War Department with the location given as Missouri R. Valley.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Missouri Valley, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 67A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2458-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace