Medicine Stone
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 May 1929
name: label: Collector
content: E. G. Johnson
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Used to relieve pain. Unworked flat pebble."
label: Notes
content: Accession file says this was collected from Agnes Quimby, who said it was used by Emma Frank, Indian doctor woman, to treat Agnes' back problems, by heating the rock in a cooking basket in water heated by a cooking stone, then wrapping the heated rock in buckskin, and applying it to her back. The treatment is described in detail in the accession file.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Metilten (Matilton) Village, across Trinity River from, Humboldt County / Hoopa Valley Reservation, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hupa
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 105865
label: USNM Number
content: E342268-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Medicine Object