Tattooing-Outfit
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Oct 1902
name: label: Collector
content: Frank Russell
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CONSISTING OF MESQUITE AND CREOSOTE CHARCOAL AND FOUR NEEDLES MADE BY LASHING PAIRS OF CACTUS SPINES TOGETHER. ILLUS.: HNDBK. OF N. AMER. INDIANS, VOL. 10, SOUTHWEST, FIG. 6, PG. 156." Handbook caption identifies as: "Tattooing kit. Both men and women formerly had face tattoos. The line was made using cactuas spines tied together with cotton; charcoal was rubbed in during the 2 operations that were necessary and for 4 days afterward (Russell 1908: 161-162). Collected by Frank Russell, 1902."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Mar 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 6
place: label: Place
content: Sacaton, Gila River Reservation, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pima (Akimel O'odham; Akimel O'otham)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 039990
label: USNM Number
content: E217935-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tattoo Set