Belt with Powder Horn
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: "WITH POWDER HORN AND POUCH. BUFFALO HORN TO BELT OF RED FLANNEL BEADED WITH FLORAL DESIGNS. POUCH OF SAME WORK. AS SOMEONE UNKNOWN HAS NOTED ABOVE, THIS LOOKS SUBARCTIC OR ESKIMO [or Metis?], RATHER THAN PLAINS -F.PICKERING 1992. (SEE CAT.#2494 FROM WILKES COLLN.)." SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
label: Notes
content: Original list in accession file identifies E178881-0 and E178881-1 as buffalo horn powder horn with shoulder belt, and shooting pouch; obtained from "Indians on the "Plains"". It also indicates Rau acquired it from "Scheerbarth, Lebanon, Ills. [Illinois]." Accession file list also indicates stopper for powder horn was made by Tichkematse (Squint Eyes), a young Cheyenne man working for the Smithsonian, "according to the Indian method", January 1880.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Oct 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Plains Indian (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 019931
label: USNM Number
content: E178881-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Belt / Powder Horn