Quill - Work
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Dec 1887
name: label: Collector
content: David Adams
label: Collector
content: Dr. Charles Rau
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Charles Rau
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TOP PIECE FOR A TRUNK. FINE QUILL WORK REPRESENTING A BUFFALO HEAD." Formerly on exhibit in NHB Hall 9, case 21. Exhibit label identified as: "Narrow bands of folded quills form a chest ornament for a man's skin shirt."
label: Notes
content: Original list in accession file indicates Rau got this object from David Adams. This is presumed to be David Adams the fur trader. Always active in the fur trade, in 1832, he joined Bonneville's expedition to the Rocky Mountains and later became involved in the fur trade with the American Fur Company. In 1841, he formed a partnership with John Sibille to trade with Indians on the Platte River. In 1849, he led an expedition to California in search of gold. All business ventures were financially unsuccessful and he returned home penniless and in debt. In 1853, David became the toll gate keeper for Gate 1 on Natural Bridge Road in St. Louis and in 1857 he opened a blacksmith shop with Joseph Hughes. Although he became a successful guide and trapper, he ended up spending his later years in St. Louis impoverished, and died in 1874.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Blackfoot (Niitsitapi, Siksikaitsitapi)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 019931
label: USNM Number
content: E178894-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Quillwork