Leg Rattle - Box Turtle Shells
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1874
label: Collection Date
content: 1874
name: label: Collector
content: Professor John W. Jenks
label: Donor Name
content: Museum of Brown University
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "FIFTEEN SHELLS OF THE BOX TURTLE ARE FASTENED TO A RECTANGULAR PIECE OF LEATHER. THE SHELLS PREFORATED WITH SMALL HOLES AND CONTAIN BLACK SEEDS ABOUT 3/16 IN. DIAMETER. STRINGS ARE ATTACHED TO THE LEATHER BY WHICH IT IS BOUND AROUND THE LEG. SEE WILSON'S PREHISTORIC ART, P. 577, ILL, 576. INVENTORIED 1977. LOANED TO THE S. I. CENTENNIAL COMM. 7-9-75. LOAN RETURNED MAR 22 1990." Note: The catalogue card identifies the donor/collector as J.W. Jenkins. The Anthropology ledger book entries are also a bit unclear on the name of the donor. However, the Smithsonian Institution Annual Report for the year 1874 identifies this donation as from Professor J.W.P. Jenks, Museum of Brown University, Providence. In the Winter and Spring of 1874, Professor Jenks spent five months hunting in the Everglades around Lake Okeechobee in Southern Florida, a detailed account of which he afterwards published: Jenks, J. W. P.; 1884; Hunting in Florida in 1874. As a result of this tour he collected at his own expense, and presented to the museum at Brown University, collections, including artifacts of the Seminole Indians, as well as presenting a small amount of material to the Smithsonian. - F. Pickering 4-3-2008
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Mar 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Lake Okeechobee, East Shore, Florida, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Seminole
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 003517
label: USNM Number
content: E15543-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Leg Rattle