Zoological Specimen: Garfish Scales
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Dec 1887
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Charles Rau
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Charles Rau
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "USED BY FLORIDA INDIANS AS HEADS FOR ARROWS. SEE BARTRAM'S TRAVELS, DUBLIN, 1793, P. 174. OCTOBER, 1971: CONDEMNED AND DESTROYED [sic; at least some were preserved]."
label: Notes
content: These are presumably ganoid scales from the Florida gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus)? For information on the uses of garfish scales see Peres, T., & Deter-Wolf, A. (2016). Reinterpreting the use of Garfish (Lepisosteidae) in the Archaeological Record of the American Southeast. In Lee Broderick (Ed.), People with Animals: Perspectives & Studies in Ethnozooarchaeology (pp. 103-114). Oxford: Oxbow Books. https://www.academia.edu/6357252/Reinterpreting_the_use_of_Garfish_Family_Lepisosteidae_in_the_Archaeological_Record_of_the_American_Southeast?email_work_card=view-paper .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Feb 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Florida, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Seminole
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 019931
label: USNM Number
content: E178926-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Zoological