Molds Made Out Of Stone
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: 4 SILVER MOLDS MADE OUT OF STONE ON THE FLOOR IN SILVERSMITH; NAVAJO?
label: Notes
content: 4 Molds for making silver objects. These molds were used in NHB Hall 11, case 15, Silversmiths Life Group, and probably in previous incarnations of this group dating back to 1893 World's Columbian Exposition? They are presumed to be exhibit props? Don Williams of SCMRE has identified the powdery substance in calico cloth # ET16598, which was used in the same exhibit as the molds, as possibly parting compound for silver molds. Thus these objects are probably related to the molds. One rough small silver bar was in one of the molds. It is numbered 165523 but since that number is incorrect and the correct number cannot be determined (one possibility is 166528?, but that is purely speculative) it has also been given T16594.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET16594-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mold