Club
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1862
name: label: Donor Name
content: Capt. George Gibbs
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CLUB USED FOR KILLING FISH." OBJECT IS ILLUSTRATED ON P. 8 ("B") OF DAVID IVES BUSHNELL, "DRAWINGS BY GEORGE GIBBS IN THE FAR NORTHWEST, 1849-1851," SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 97.8 (1938). - STEVEN L. GRAFE 1997. Bushnell identifies club as cedar and indicates it was collected by George Gibbs probably in 1850 or 1851 near the mouth of the Columbia River.
label: Notes
content: Note that club 651 is mentioned as being used in an exhibit in Berlin in 1880 on p. 52 of USNM Bulletin No. 18. It is described there as a Northwest coast salmon club.
label: Notes
content: For more information, see pdf of additional documentation on the Gibbs collections provided by Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa which is filed with the Emu accession/transaction record.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Jul 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Columbia River, Oregon, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000051
label: USNM Number
content: E651-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Club