Medicine Beans
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 May 1892
label: Collection Date
content: 1872
name: label: Collector
content: Brig. Gen. William B. Hazen
label: Collector
content: William Courtenay
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Mildred M. Hazen
notes: label: Notes
content: Culture identification changed from Sioux to Hidatsa, Arikara, or Mandan by Candace Greene May 2017 based on a full review of the collecting history and consideration of general stylistic traits.
label: Notes
content: From card: "4 - Plum-stone (Prunus americana) dice [for dice game], burned marks on one side of each 2 - Seeds of Kentucky coffee bean (Gymnocladus dioica)".
label: Notes
content: Dice of type used with game baskets, some of which are present in the Hazen collection.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 8
place: label: Place
content: Fort Buford, Williams County, Dakota Territory / North Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hidatsa (?)
label: Culture
content: Arikara (Sahnish) (?)
label: Culture
content: Mandan (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025748
label: USNM Number
content: E154065-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Botanical / Dice