Roach Spreader
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Jan 1867
name: label: Donor Name
content: John Varden
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LONG NARROW FLAT PIECE OF BONE, 3 ARROWHEAD SHAPED PRONGS AT ONE END (DISTAL) TAPERING TO A ROUNDED PROXIMAL END, TO WHICH IS ATTACHED A BIRDS BEAK, AND ON THE FLAT SURFACE A SHORT TUBULAR SECTION OF BONE WRAPPED WITH A PIECE OF RIBBON. THE FEATHER WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN INSIDE IS MISSING. TOP SURFACE WITH INCISED DECORATIONS AMONG WHICH IS A BUFFALO HEAD. 11/1964 THE BIRD'S BEAK HAD BEEN DAMAGED BY BUGS AND WAS REPAIRED IN THE ANTH. LAB. LOAN: DENVER MUS. 3/15/65. RETURNED 10/6/65. THIS PIECE CLOSELY RESEMBLES CATALOGUE#S 2472 & 2473, WHICH ARE IDENTIFIED AS MISSOURI RIVER, SIOUX ?, AND IS BEING STORED WITH THAT CULTURE PER CANDACE GREENE 1-15-1992."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Jul 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Canada (not certain) / United States (not certain), 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: 68A00002
label: USNM Number
content: E5442-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress