Shell Ornaments
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 May 1892
label: Collection Date
content: 1872
name: label: Collector
content: Brig. Gen. William B. Hazen
label: Collector
content: William Courtenay
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Mildred M. Hazen
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CONDITION REPORT AFTER REMOVAL FROM EXHIBIT HALL 9 (C. VALENTOUR 3/98): "ABALONE SHELL EARRINGS ARE CUT FROM 1 SINGLE, ROUGHLY SQUARE SHELL, W/ EACH EARRING HAVING A RECTANGULAR SHAPE, TAPERED AT ONE END. SMALL END 2 HOLES THROUGH WHICH A BUCKSKIN THONG IS STRUNG. THERE'RE SOME INCISED LINES ON THE CONVEX SIDE. INTERIOR HAS REMNANT OF RED PAINT."
label: Notes
content: For drawings of Arikara men wearing similar abalone shell pendants as earrings, see Manuscript 154,064A and B in the National Anthropological Archives. Culture identification changed from Sioux to Hidatsa, Arikara, or Mandan by Candace Greene May 2017 based on a full review of the collecting history and consideration of general stylistic traits.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Aug 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Fort Buford, Williams County, Dakota Territory / North Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hidatsa (?)
label: Culture
content: Arikara (Sahnish) (?)
label: Culture
content: Mandan (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025748
label: USNM Number
content: E153973-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Earring
physicalDescription: label: Length - Of Shell
content: 10 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 5.3 cm