Dance Rattle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1869
name: label: Collector
content: Dr A. J. Comfort
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: FORT WADSWORTH WAS RENAMED FORT SISSETON IN 1876 FOR THE INDIANS LIVING IN THAT REGION. THE SISSETON INDIAN AGENCY WAS AT THE FORT. FROM CARD: "GOURD DANCE RATTLE. INVENTORIED 1978."
label: Notes
content: Listed in original AMM catalog as #269, An instrument used to mark time at Indian dances. [no tribe given] Presented by Lt. D.H. Kelton through Dr. Comfort.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Sisseton, Marshall County, South Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: E8569-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rattle