Horse Stealing Charm Necklace
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Oct 1953
label: Collection Date
content: 1941
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs. Edith V. Murphey
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Eva J. Mitchell
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Necklace ca. 22" long of 6 bone hairpipes, each 3 1/2" long and four horse teeth strung on rawhide cord with large red, green and black trade beads. Pendant from the necklace tied a buckskin pouch with beaded edging and 2 pendant owl feathers."
label: Notes
content: Information in accession file on charm necklace: "This necklace was worn by Stabs by Mistake as a young man on the expeditions to the enemy to capture horses. The pouch contains medicine, identified by Mrs. Edith V. A. Murphey, botanist of the U.S. Indian Service, who collected this specimen for her cousin, Mrs. Mitchell in 1941, as the seeds of the Prairie Clover, Petalostemon purpureus. ... Stabs by Mistake, full-blood Piegan Indian, born, ca. 1868, died November 1941, was the owner of the horse stealing charm."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Jun 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Blackfeet Reservation, Montana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Blackfoot (Niitsitapi, Siksikaitsitapi), Piegan (Piikani)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 199884
label: USNM Number
content: E391869-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Charm