Quillwork
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1869
name: label: Collector
content: Dr A. J. Comfort
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM LEDGER BOOK VI, #274, IDENTIFIES THIS ARTIFACT AS "A SPECIMEN OF QUILL WORK DESIGNED TO REPRESENT THE HEAD AND HORNS OF A BUFFALO, WITH A BIRD SITTING ON EACH HORN." THIS WAS MISTRANSCRIBED AS "WORKED QUILT" IN ANTHROPOLOGY RECORDS WHEN THE ARTIFACT WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE SMITHSONIAN. - F. PICKERING 9-12-1997 T1804 HAS BEEN TENTATIVELY IDENTIFIED AS 8574 AND GIVEN THAT NUMBER. - F. PICKERING 9-16-1997 ARTIFACT WAS LENT TO MANSFIELD ART CENTER 3-5-1980 AS T1804. LOAN RETURNED 5-2-1980. ARTIFACT IDENTIFIED AS TOP OF CRADLE BY BENSON LANFORD 2-2002
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Sisseton, Marshall County, South Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: E8574-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Quillwork