Fire Sticks "Muttak"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Dec 1895
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward Lovett
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SET OF TWO. UNABLE TO IDENTIFY "MIGDON;" HOWEVER, MIDGAN IS THE NAME OF LOWCASTE HUNTERS AND LEATHER WORKERS AMONG THE SOMALI IN THE HORN OF AFRICA (NOT ADEN). THE MIDGAN ARE DISTRIBUTED AMONG VARIOUS SOMALI TRIBES, AND ARE SAID TO DERIVE FROM ORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF THE COUNTRY, WHO PRECEDED THE SOMALI OF ARABIAN ORIGIN. SEE I. M. LEWIS, PEOPLES OF THE HORN OF AFRICA (ETHNOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF AFRICA, N.E., PART I), PP 51 FF.-G.D.G."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Gulf of Aden, Somalia, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Somali
label: Culture
content: Migdan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 030100
label: USNM Number
content: E175474-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fire Set