Mortar Of Buffalo Hide And Pestle (Maul)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1869
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. A. B. Campbell
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MORTAR, MADE FROM THE THICK HIDE OF A BUFFALO'S NECK. HAMMER (I.E. MAUL), WITH HEAD OF STONE, SHAFT OF WOOD, AND THE WHOLE COVERED WITH RAWHIDE, EXCEPTING A SMALL PLACE EXPOSED FOR POUNDING. ON THE PLAINS, WHERE BOTH FRIABLE STONE AND LARGE TREES ARE WANTING, THE INDIANS ARE COMPELLED TO GRIND THEIR DRIED MEAT AND BERRIES INTO PEMMICAN WITH APPARATUS OF THE SORT SUCH AS THIS." FROM CONDITION REPORT AFTER REMOVAL FROM EXHIBIT HALL 9 (C. VALENTOUR 3/98): "SHAPED PIECE OF BUFFALO RAWHIDE W/ A SECOND PIECE FORMING BASE SEWN W/ SINEW. EXTERIOR ABOVE BASE STILL PARTIALLY COVERED W/ BUFFALO HAIR. MORTAR RIM HAS 7 CUT HOLES." SAMPLE OF PROP MATERIAL (?) USED TO SIMULATE PEMMICAN FOR EXHIBIT IS IN 1225A00405. D. NGUYEN, MAY 10 - 1999.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Nov 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Plains Northern, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Yankton (Ihanktonwan) Dakota
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: E8383-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mortar/Hammer
physicalDescription: label: Length - Mortar
content: 49 cm
label: Width - Mortar
content: 42 cm
label: Height - Mortar
content: 14.5 cm