Necklace
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THIS CONSISTS OF BEAR CLAWS SET IN A CIRCLE OF FUR AND KEPT RIGID BY THE INSERTION OF THREE METAL BEADS HALFWAY BETWEEN THE POINT AND THE BASE. AT THE BACK WHERE THE TIE OF THE NECKLACE IS, THERE IS A PIECE OF FLAP WHICH HANGS DOWN AND ALSO A PIECE OF RAWHIDE WHICH IS STRIPPED NEAR THE BASE AND THE STRIPS WRAPPED IN PORCUPINE QUILLS. APRIL 1961 "THIS NECKLACE CONSTRUCTED OF A WHOLE OTTER SKIN, USED LENGHTWISE WITH THE CLAWS SEWN THROUGH THE SKIN, AND THEN SEWN TOGETHER ALONG THE INSIDE, ALSO WITH THE HEAD AND TAIL LEFT ON THE ENDS, IS A METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION WHICH APPEARS TO BE TYPICAL OF PAWNEE WORK, FROM SEVERAL DOCUMENTED SPECIMENS. THOSE OF THE EASTERN WOODLANDS AND THE OTHER EASTERN PLAINS TRIBES TYPICALLY HAVE THE SKIN SPLIT AND WOUND AROUND IN A SPIRAL." - NORMAN FEDER. LOAN: MANSFIELD ART CENTER, 3/5/80. RETURNED: 5/2/80." CULTURAL AFFILIATION CHANGED FROM SAC & FOX TO PAWNEE.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Apr 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pawnee (Chaticks Si Chaticks) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E361581-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 39.4 cm