Stone Beads (2)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1841
name: label: Collector
content: Father Jose L. Quijas
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: TWO CYLINDRICAL WHITE STONE DISKS, OR BEADS, WITH HOLES DRILLED THROUGH THE CENTER. ONE HAS AN ORIGINAL PEALE NUMBER. THESE TWO BEADS HAD BEEN CATALOGUED AS T-14059, BUT WERE IDENTIFIED BY THE ORIGINAL PEALE NUMBER. THE ORIGINAL S.I. LEDGER DESCRIBES THESE AS "HEAD ORNAMENTS, PERFORATED STONES (2).
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies this (in poor phonetic Spanish) as "Adorno en los cabasios de los mueason?" which the Smithsonian cataloguer assumed meant head ornaments: adorno = ornament and the assumption is that cabasios = cabezas, or the plural of the word for head. This object seems to be included under the heading in the Peale catalogue of "Native manufactures from St Francisco [San Francisco Mission] California. Presented by Padre Quijas" (presumably Father Jose Lorenzo Quijas). The use of Spanish in the description seems to be confirmation of that.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2691-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bead
physicalDescription: label: Length - A
content: 1.4 cm
label: Length - B
content: 0.9 cm
label: Diameter - A
content: 1.6 cm
label: Diameter - B
content: 1.6 cm