Ornament (Pendant)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: From T number book: "ORNAMENT (PENDANT) 2 TRIANGULAR PIECES OF BLUE GLAZED CERAMIC ON SKIN." There were originally two artifacts under this T number but in 2004 one has been identified as #E9850 and stored under that catalogue number. Remaining pendant in T number has been identified by Dr. William Billeck as Northern Plains style Native American manufactured pendant that dates to after 1800. Pendant is blue-green and has a white straight line and a white crescent line. It is on a skin cord with three 19th century glass beads. The presence of skin supports it as an ethnological rather than an archaeological object. - F. Pickering & W. Billeck 8-11-2004 Matthew Stirling's 1948 article on pendants mentions that the SI collections contains a pendant obtained by Washington Matthews (now identified as E9850 and formerly in this T number) and a second pendant that was a Sioux charm. He does not list any additional infomation about the second pendant, which is likely to be the object that remains in this ET catalog number. The illustration in the article lists that it depicts the Matthews and the Sioux pendant, but it does not - all of the illustrated pendants are from Striling's 1923 excavations at the Leavenworth (39CO9) site. All of the illustrated pendants by Stirling have Leavenworth catalog numbers on the objects. A partial number was found on one of the two pendants that former was in ET14891 and that partial number matches the Matthews pendant. No numbers or tags were present on the pendant that remains in this catalog number. W Billeck 7-25-2013
label: Notes
content: Illustrated Figure 1d, p. 412 in William T. Billeck (2016) Ethnographic and historical evidence for glass pendant function in the Plains, Plains Anthropologist, 61:240, 410-424, DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2016.1245963
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Dec 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET14891-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pendant