Necklace Of Buckskin, Bird Claws and Bird Bones
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1875
name: label: Collector
content: Major John W. Powell
label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: PROVENIENCE IS UNCERTAIN FOR #E022007-27, ENTERED IN THE LEDGER ONLY AS "NO. WYOMING" BUT RECORDED VARIOUSLY IN THE CARD CATALOG AS "NORTHERN WYOMING," "WIND RIVER," OR "WIND RIVER AGENCY." NOTES IN THE ACCESSION FILE BY NEIL M. JUDD (AUGUST 1915) STATE, "NEITHER THE NATURE OF THE MATERIAL NOR THE LOCALITIES FROM WHICH IT CAME IS INDICATED." FROM CARD: "MADE FROM THE FEET AND TOES OF RAPACIOUS BIRDS. STRUNG ON BUCKSKIN THONG AND HELD APART BY SECTIONS OF THE LONG BONES OF BIRDS, AND TRIMMED WITH OTTER SKIN. INVENTORIED 1975." As of 2004, no otter skin present. See similar object #22012.
label: Notes
content: Illustrated in Fowler and Matley (1979) (Figure 46) with the following remarks: "Eagle claws (Aquila chrysaetos) and claws of smaller birds of Raptores order strung on two buckskin thongs." Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Feb 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Wind River (not certain), Wyoming Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Shoshone, Eastern, Wind River
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004260
label: USNM Number
content: E22021-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace