Skin-Dressing Tool
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1868
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. U S Army Charles C. Gray
label: Collector
content: Dr. Washington Matthews
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. U S Army Charles C. Gray
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: ACCESSION FILE FOR E6326-361 NOTES ONLY THAT THE OBJECTS WERE SENT FROM FORT STEVENSON IN 1868. THE COLLECTORS, DRS. GRAY & MATHEWS, WERE POSTED TO THIS FORT IN 1867-68 (IN PRESENT-DAY NORTH DAKOTA), BUT PRIOR TO THAT, DR. MATHEWS HAD SERVED AT FORT BERTHOLD (WHICH LAY ONLY A FEW MILES FROM FORT STEVENSON), AS WELL AS AT FORT UNION FURTHER NORTH ON THE UPPER MISSOURI RIVER (ON THE MONTANA/NORTH DAKOTA BORDER). NEAR THERE, AT FORT BUFORD, DR. GRAY HAD BEEN POSTED IN 1867, AND IN 1866 SERVED AT FORT RANDALL (IN PRESENT-DAY SOUTHERN SOUTH DAKOTA). PRECISE PROVENIENCE IS THEREFORE UNCERTAIN FOR THESE OBJECTS; "FORT BERTHOLD," "FORT STEVENSON," "UPPER MISSOURI RIVER," OR SIMPLY "DAKOTA TERRITORY" INCONSISTENTLY APPEAR IN THE CARD CATALOG LISTINGS FOR THIS SERIES. AS ALL THE AFOREMENTIONED FORTS LAY ALONG THE UPPER MISSOURI RIVER, THAT DESIGNATION IS CHOSEN FOR LOCALITY. (CFS/1995).
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "6,336-7. BONE." From 19th or early 20th Century exhibit label with Card, for E6336, E6337, E11100, E130622 and 176432: "SKIN SCRAPERS OF THE SIOUX INDIANS (Siouan family) . Handles, of elkhorn; blades of chert or iron lashed to the working end of the handle with buckskin thong and rag."
label: Notes
content: CULTURE CHANGED FROM GROS VENTRE TO HIDATSA PER C. GREENE 8-24-1999. SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
label: Notes
content: Anthropology catalogue ledger book indicates an object with this number was exchanged with the Trocadero Museum July 1885, howver there is a hide scraper in the Anthropology collections with this number which seems properly marked. Perhaps there was more than one object under this number? See Cat. 46 p. 175 in Faucourt, Camille. 2020. A La Conquête de l'Ouest : Collectes Amérindiennes de La Smithsonian Institution Conservées Au Musée Du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. Entry is for a pair of beaded garters, Musee du Quai Branly catalog no. 71.1885.78.291.460, which their records identify as former Smithsonian no. E6336.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Nov 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Upper Missouri River, Dakota Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hidatsa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001281
label: USNM Number
content: E6336-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hide Scraper