Medicine Man's Rattle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1869
label: Collection Date
content: 1865 to 1868
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. U S Army Charles C. Gray
label: Collector
content: Dr. Washington Matthews
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "AN ANIMAL'S SCROTUM DIVIDED LONGITUDINALLY AND STRETCHED TOGETHER. THE NECK IS DRAWN OVER A STICK AND WOUND WITH A THONG, FORMING THE HANDLE." CULTURE CHANGED FROM GROS VENTRE TO HIDATSA PER C. GREENE 8-20-1999. SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: PROVENIENCE IS UNCERTAIN, BUT THE COLLECTOR, DR. MATTHEWS, WAS POSTED FROM 1865-7 FORT UNION AND FORT BERTHOLD, DAKOTA TERR.; 1867 ALSO FORT SNELLING, MINN., FORT WADSWORTH, DAKOTA, 1867 (JULY) TO JUNE 1868. COLLECTOR DR. GRAY WAS POSTED 1866-7 FORT RANDALL, DAKOTA TERRITORY; 1867 ALSO FORT BUFORD, DAKOTA TERRITORY; 1867-1868 FORT STEVENSON, DAKOTA TERRITORY.
label: Notes
content: A mannequin representing Red Cloud was an early mannequin (circa 1872-1873) on display at the Smithsonian, per a photo taken of it there in 1873. In a reconfigured form, the mannequin was on display at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. See Scherer, Joanna Cohan and Vicki Simon. 2017. Red Cloud's Manikin and his Uncle's Shirt: Historical Representation in the Museum as Seen Through Photo Analysis. https://web.archive.org/web/20240719183628/https://indigenousknowledge.indiana.edu/scherer/RedCloud/index.htm . A stereograph photo of the mannequin at the Centennial in 1876 is also available at the Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2022653168/ . The mannequin is holding something in its right hand in these photos. It is possible that what it is holding is rattle E8423?
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Jul 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Dakota Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hidatsa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: E8423-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rattle