Fire Tongs
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Dec 1904
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
label: Donor Name
content: U. S. Dept. Of Agriculture
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Iron pieces made of strap metal used about charcoal fires by the people of the table lands. Apaches of Arizona use wooden one like this." Culture for this object is listed as Chichimicas or Apaches on the catalogue card. Tag on the artifact says Chichimeca or Aztec. Per H.N.A.I., Vol. 10, p. 387, Chichimeca is a problematic term which has been used by the Spanish as a generic label for the unsettled peoples of northern Mexico and the southwest.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Feb 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: San Luis Potosi, Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Apache (?)
label: Culture
content: Chichimeca (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 043666
label: USNM Number
content: E233167-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fire Tongs