Bear Claw Necklace
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Mar 1965
name: label: Donor Name
content: Robert L. Dwight
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Presumed Siouan, Upper Missouri River area. Thirty-five claws; strung on leather thong; bases have been covered with red cloth and claws separated with 2 blue beads each. Beads now mostly lost."
label: Notes
content: Illus. p. 203 and discussed p. 203 and p. 378 in Gilman, Carolyn. 2003. Lewis and Clark across the divide. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books. Identified there as Upper Missouri, mid-1800's.
label: Notes
content: Originally identified as Siouan and subsequently changed to Sioux, perhaps through error. Changed to Hidatsa in 2019 based on association with the shirt in the accession, cat. no. E403,344A.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jul 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Upper Missouri River, 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: 259684
label: USNM Number
content: E403347-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace