Hunting-Stick
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 Apr 1900
name: label: Collector
content: Gustave (Gus) H. Beaulieu
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: THIS OBJECT APPEARS TO BE PART OF AN ACCESSION (#E204955-970)THAT WAS MIS-LISTED IN THE LEDGER AND CARD CATALOG AS OF "MICHIGAN" PROVENIENCE. THE ACCESSION RECORD SPECIMEN DESCRIPTIONS, WHILE NOT NUMBERED AND ILLEGIBLE IN PLACES, ALL APPEAR TO GIVE MINNESOTA LOCALITIES. FROM CARD: "HUNTING STICK OF SOFT WOOD WITH ONE END SLIGHTLY CARVED. PAINTED RED AND YELLOW. USED BY THE INDIAN BOYS FOR HUNTING SMALL GAME. INVENTORIED 1977." Ilus. and described (under incorrect # 204597) pp. 401-2 in BAE 24th Annual Report. It is noted there: "This object is stated by the collector to be a rabbit club, which is glanced or thrown along the surface of the snow to kill the animal, 'like a snow-snake.'"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Minnesota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 036315
label: USNM Number
content: E204957-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Throwing Stick