Roach Spreader
date: label: Accession Date
content: 31 Dec 1867
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department Of War
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LONG NARROW FLAT PIECE OF BONE, CUT INTO OPENWORK, TWO PRONGED AT THE DISTAL END, AND ROUNDED AT THE PROXIMAL END WHERE IS MOUNTED AT RIGHT ANGLES OF THE MAIN PIECE, A SHORT TUBULAR SECTION OF BONE INTO WHICH HAS BEEN FASTENED A FEATHER WRAPPED AT THE BASE WITH RED WOOL AND WITH SMALL AMOUNT OF WHITE BEADING. 1964 THE FEATHER IS MISSING EXCEPT FOR THE BASE. ON THE TOP SURFACE ARE A FEW DECORATIONS IN EXCISING AND PUNCTATION.-ONE A BUFFALO HEAD. FOR SIMILAR SPECIMENS REFER TO CAT. NOS. 2472, 5442. THIS WAS ONCE CALLED A "WARRIOR'S HEADDRESS", AND THUS MAY HAVE BEEN PART OF IT, BUT THE REST WAS NOT LOCATED NOV. 1964.-R.ELDER."
label: Notes
content: Entered in the orginal ledger catalog as "Warrior Head Dress" from the War Department with the location given as Missouri R. Valley. Length 8.5".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Sep 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Missouri River, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 67A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2473-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress