Playing Cards (1 Deck)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jun 1981
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs. Marjorie M. Post
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Marjorie M. Post
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Hand-painted on rawhide with yellow, red & black; 4 suits represented (cups or goblets, straight sword, gold coin, club or cudgel); the Rey of Cups is missing; no decoration on card backs, appear to be an unused deck; said made from human skin; but doubtful. 5-8-1986 - 2 cards lent to NMNH Dept. of Vertebrate Zoology for identification of animal skin. 7-2-1986 returned. Skin identified by D. Deedrick, Microscopic Analysis Unit, Branch of Hair and Fibers, FBI; as skin from cattle, not human." This object is illustrated and described on p. 119 of Wayland, Virginia, Harold Wayland, and Alan Ferg. 2006; Playing cards of the Apaches: a study in cultural adaptation; Tucson, Ariz: Screenfold Press.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Apache
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 318782
label: USNM Number
content: E418736A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Card