Medicine-Stick
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1891
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PERSIMMON. 'MEDICINE STICK: MADE OF PERSIMMON WOOD, & USED BY THE DOCTOR TO PRESS UPON THE STOMACH OF THE PATIENT IN CERTAIN FORMS OF DISEASE. IT IS ABOUT 3 INCHES LONG & SHAVED OFF AT THE UPPER END TO ASSIST THE DOCTOR IN GRASPING IT. THE STICK MUST BE FRESHLY CUT WHEN USED. A PRAYER, BUT NO MEDICINE ACCOMPANIES THE APPLICATION.' - JAMES MOONEY NOTES." SEE P. 59 IN B.A.E. BULLETIN 99, THE SWIMMER MANUSCRIPT BY JAMES MOONEY AND FRANS OLBRECHTS, WHERE THIS ARTIFACT IS CALLED A STAMPER.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Eastern Cherokee Reservation, North Carolina, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 024012
label: USNM Number
content: E135184-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Medicine Stick