Wooden Flute
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
label: Collection Date
content: 1900
name: label: Collector
content: Richard C. Adams
label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "6 stoppered-wood-two sectioned longitudinally; Silver tag marked "No one living knows how old it is, was used when the Delawares lived in the vicinity of Fort Pitt, afterwards Pittsburgh, and presented to Richard C. Adams, representative of the tribe in 1900, by his people." See Bull. 136, U.S.N.M. g# a# c d e f# a, Loan: Political Hist. (NMAH) 3/7/60, Ret: 4/9/69."
label: Notes
content: Illustrated on p. xl of Legends of the Delaware Indians and Picture Writing, by Richard C. Adams, 1997 edition, Syracuse University Press [originally published 1905]. Noted there as having been sold to Victor Evans from the estate of Richard C. Adams.
label: Notes
content: As noted above, this artifact was formerly owned by Richard Calmit Adams, who in 1909 lent it to the Smithsonian under loan acccession no. 49797, catalogue no. 253555. Reference: "Indian Relics For Museum," The Washington Post, February 27, 1909, 5.
label: Notes
content: Flute E362062 is probably the one referenced on p. 20 of Adams, Richard C. 1921. Claims of the Delaware Indians; memorial of the Delaware tribe of Indians ... in support of Senate bill 663 and H.R. 6051. http://archive.org/details/claimsofdelaware00adam .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Delaware (Lenape)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E362062-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Flute