Ball For Ball Game
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1884
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS.: P.26, PL.111A, CELEBRATIONS CATALOGUE, SMITHSONIAN PRESS, 1982. LOANED TO RENWICK 8/6/81. RETURNED 1983. HIDE BALL, CA. 1870-80. EASTERN CHEROKEE INDIANS; YELLOW HILL COUNCIL HOUSE, JACKSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. HIDE, SINEW, STUFFING. DIAMETER: 2 (5.1). COLLECTED BY DR. EDWARD PALMER IN THE LATTER PART OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY A LEATHER-COVERED BALL WAS USED, WHERE FORMERLY IT HAD BEEN MADE OF DEERHAIR AND COVERED WITH DEERSKIN. THIS EXAMPLE APPEARS TO BE ONE OF THE OLDER BALLS."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Yellow Hill Council House, Jackson County, North Carolina, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 014255
label: USNM Number
content: E63062-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ball