Drum-Stick
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Aug 1898
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Peter Jones
label: Collector
content: Dr. Peter E. Jones
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "FOR BEATING THE WATER DRUM. CARVED OF ONE PIECE DEER ANTLER, SHOWING THE SURFACE TEXTURE OF ANTLER ON THE HANDLE. CURVED AT ONE END, WHICH SLIGHTLY ENLARGED INTO A BALL, REST OF THE FLATTENED PIECE IS CUT THROUGH INTO DESIGN HOLES AND INTO DEEP SERRATIONS ALONG THE TOP EDGE. ILLUS. HNDBK. OF N. AMER. INDIANS, VOL. 15, NORTHEAST, FIG. 10, PG. 768." LISTED AS A "DRUM STICK" IN PLATE OPPOSITE PAGE 135 IN HISTORY OF THE OJEBWAY INDIANS, BY REV. PETER JONES, LONDON 1861. IDENTIFIED IN HANDBOOK OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS AS "COLLECTED BY REV. PETER JONES BEFORE 1844, PROBABLY FROM THE MISSISSAUGAS OF THE CREDIT." - STEVEN L. GRAFE 1997 SEE ACCESSION HISTORY AND PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Apr 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ontario, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe), Mississauga
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 033939
label: USNM Number
content: E178379-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drumstick
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 30 cm