Ceremonial Bearskin
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Dressed skin. Inside lined with vegetable material at the legs. Head has a wicker fitting to keep it extended. Thongs attached along sides so that the hide could be worn. Interior has an extra strip of dressed skin attache don which have been painted red stripes. Tucked into back of one rear paw was a drawstring bag containing seeds and vegetable materials. Loan: National Institute of Health 5/1/71. Returned to the Department of Anthropology 11/9/71."
label: Notes
content: This object resembles the bear doctor's suit model illustrated as Plate 7 in Barrett, S. A. 1917. Pomo bear doctors. Berkeley: University of California Press, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42979 .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Indian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E358435-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bearskin Garment